…there was no more safety to be found in love than there was to be found in a virus.

If you feel strongly about people having abortions, don't have one.

We permit bad taste in this country. In fact, we even encourage it - and reward it in all manner of ways.

Children are most impressed with the importance of a moment when they witness a parent breaking the parents' own rule.

I’m not afraid, but I’m very nervous.

I suppose I'm proudest of my novels for what's imagined in them. I think the world of my imagination is a richer and more interesting place than my personal biography.

Whatever I write, no matter how gray or dark the subject matter, it's still going to be a comic novel.