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.

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

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.

The jocks that used to stuff me into a locker when I was a punk rocker are my best buddies now.

You have to find hope. Hope is such a shape shifter. You tend to look in the rearview mirror for hope, but when its gone, you have to look forward. You have to get in the van and keep driving on.

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

Fobbit is fast, razor sharp, and seven kinds of hilarious. Thank you, Mr. Abrams, for the much needed salve--it feels good to finally laugh about Iraq. Fobbit deserves a place alongside Slaughterhouse Five and Catch-22 as one of our great comic novels about the absurdity of war.