Kids don’t do what their parents say-they do what they see their parents do. So who was to blame here?

That’s the problem with falling in love. It makes you start talking like a bad country song

We're called New Jersey but we're actually the suburbs of New York.

What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the book where it's a conspiracy reaching the prime minister; I don't write the book with the big serial killer who lops off heads. My setting is a very placid pool of suburbia, family life. And within that I can make pretty big splashes.

I always think the insecurity is going to go away, but it's always there. Only bad writers think they're good.

An hour before his world exploded like a ripe tomato under a stiletto heel, Myron bit into a fresh pastry that tasted suspiciously like urinal cake.

I'm not very happy idle. There's always this voice in my head that says, 'I should be writing.