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

Then again, the name, the associations with a writer's name, can add to the reader's entertainment and pleasure.

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

Some ego is involved because I guess one wants to be perceived as a good clown and one puts one's name on the art; but it's so hard to do anything in life, trapped as we are in our bodies, that is purely selfless for others... somehow the self is always involved.

I am part of a vast generation of people who perpetually live as if they just graduated from college.

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

There are so many talented young writers named Jonathan, with whom by comparison I suffer terribly.