The best thing about the iPhone is this that tells me where I am all the time. Theres never a need to feel lost anymore.

Satire always benefits when evil and stupidity collide.

A writer or any suffering artist-to-be is just an instrument too finely set to the human condition [...]

In a strange way, I expected Russia to become more like America since the Soviet Union collapsed, but the reverse is true. America has become more like Russia: a kleptocratic society.

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

Good fiction makes me turn off all the other parts of my brain, so that I become quiet and submissive, entirely at the mercy of the work at hand.

By reading this message you are denying its existence and implying consent.