You always feel like your 18-year-old self in some sense. And that's what walking through New York on a June evening feels like - you feel like it's Friday and you're 17 years old.

Diagnoses exist to help get people services they need - but there's no such thing as mental illness. We're all mentally ill.

Adulthood is interesting to adults. But I would never want to write about stuff I dont feel everybody can connect to.

May we all emerge from winter with our strength renewed and any unwanted pieces left under the ice.

I am a person of high energy. That, and I sit down and I write when I get an idea - I put other things aside.

Life is hard, you're tired, and there's disease. The strategy that works for children is to be delighted by the things that delight you.

I'm sort of a cavedweller: I miss my house, my yard, my kitchen, my wife. The trees. When I get home, I like to get down into my office neighborhood as soon as I can.