Personally, I've never had it as a goal in life to be happy. Seems impossible to achieve. Even the Declaration of Independence seems to acknowledge this. They talk about the pursuit of happiness, not happiness itself.

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

Mostly I have to try to censor myself so as not to write things that will hurt other people, or that will go too far.

It was one of those days when every time I went to go out the door, something grabbed me in the back of the brain and said, lie down and masturbate one more time.

I grew up in northern New Jersey - the banlieue of New York - and I now live in Brooklyn. I am separated from my parents by about 50 miles, but really there is almost no distance between us. I speak to them nearly every day.

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

I drink coffee. Without coffee, I probably couldnt write.