I usually write in my underwear, with a space heater running full blast, and three dogs sleeping at me feet.

I discovered John Fante when I was 17 years old - strangely, not through Charles Bukowski, but through William Saroyan, who was his drinking buddy.

I love being a struggling artist; it makes me feel very alive.

You have to smile, if you expect anybody to smile back.

People really do change. Don't let anyone tell you differently. That the future does not conform to the past is not the exception, but the rule.

The Mathematician's Shiva is a brilliant and compelling family saga full of warmth, pathos, history, and humor, not to mention a cast of delightfully quirky characters, and a math lesson or two; all together, a winning equation! When Rojstaczer writes about mathematics, you'd think he was writing about poetry.

I know I've lost my mind. But I'm not concerned, because it's the first thing I've lost in a long time that actually feels good.