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

I've really never written about my relationships, or things like that. I wouldn't want to divulge things that were too private.

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

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

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

I certainly want to portray the importance of friendship. I had noticed in movies and TV shows that friends often treated one another terribly, and my friends, the few I have, are never cruel to me or unkind, so I wanted to convey that.

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.