I don't really know the person who wrote the things I wrote. I kind of know him, but I change so much all the time that it's like I start fresh over and over and over and over. Writing-wise and life-wise.

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

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.

As a child, I wanted to be an athlete, a professional tennis player or something like that.

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

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

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.