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

I wish we had a dog in the show so that I could get to be a dog for a day.

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 hid my underwear beneath a parked Peugeot.

I don't really recognise success. I don't see myself as on an upwardly mobile trajectory. I see myself as on the edge of a cliff about to fall off.

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

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.