The real self and the public self are intertwined, like a tumor around an organ, and you can't cut the tumor or you'll kill the organ, so they live together, until the tumor chokes the organ off - but which self is the tumor?. Or it's like something out of Star Trek. The Borg.

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

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

I don't laugh that much, but I do like humorous books, and I like to entertain readers that way.

The real self and the public self are intertwined, like a tumor around an organ, and you can't cut the tumor or you'll kill the organ, so they live together, until the tumor chokes the organ off - but which self is the tumor?. Or it's like something out of Star Trek. The Borg.

I'm actually much more shy and self-conscious than people's perception of me.

The work changes the way your face changes and ages - it just does. Also, I have very little connection to anything I've written. I move on. We all move on