I don't have many possessions, apart from my books.

All of my books have an element of a man who is in love with somebody and needs them desperately, not just for procreation but for being able to fully unbosom himself. He only feels comfortable discussing things with women. Which is funny, because 80 percent of readers are women!

You could drown a kitten in her blue eyes.

We are now part of this giant machine where every second we have to take out a device and contribute our thoughts and opinions.

If you read only one memoir by a disaffected, urban, 20-something Jewish girl this year, make it this one. Shukert rocks the lulav.

That's what tyrants do, I guess. They make you covet their attention; they make you confuse attention for mercy.

A lot of the ways of advertising a book - the cover, whether somebody sees it on a subway or sees it in a bookstore - those things are going to rapidly diminish as we move to an electronic model.