People don't expect too much from literature. They just want to know they're not alone with being confused.

I promote my own self-hatred.

I don't like to publicly acknowledge being a Jew.

After my first novel, my mother said to me, 'Why don't you make your writing more funny? You're so funny in person.' Because my first novel was rather dark. And I don't know, but something about what she said was true. 'Yes, why don't I?' Maybe I was afraid to be funny in the writing. But since then, seven books later, almost everything I've done has a comedic edge to it.

The reason it's hard for me to tweet is I don't want to pronounce anything, and Twitter is for pronouncing.

It's hard to leave New York: this is where my friends are, my parents are. It is so vital. The whole world seems to look to New York.

I am always the source of the worst rumors about myself.