Snoring keeps the monsters away.

There's no book or play or series or anything that speaks to everyone, because then it wouldn't speak to anyone.

A good writer is always a people watcher.

I thought [books ban] was crazy. Really my thoughts were "This is America, we don't do this here" but of course I know a lot better now. And I wasn't the only one. Norma Klein was writing at the same time. Her books were going. So many of us. When you say to me, no you can't do this I say, oh yes I can.

"Summer Sisters" was actually was a huge influence on "Girls" because it was the first thing I ever consumed that sort of looked at the way that female friendship can be glorious and can be complicated and can be so like a worse betrayal than something romantic and it just showed these archetypes of femininity than totally sort of individuated them and exploded them.

It's not so much that I like him as a person God, but as a boy he's very handsome.

I'm an e-mail junkie though I'm trying to read my in-box only twice a day and to answer all at once.