You know, I always think of myself as sort of ready for every criticism.

I've only recently realized that I have a radically different relationship with my parents than a lot of people.

I think we all feel that way when we're young we don't think teachers have lives. We don't think therapists have lives. We don't think doctors have lives.

I'm just waiting to be 85 and be in a pajama community. Everyone's welcome to join me.

That's the feeling [of relativity] I always had about [Judy Blume] books which I re-read and re-read and re-read.

I used to think Twitter was a waste of time and sort of ran counter to my ability to be productive and to write and now Twitter feels like a really cool part of the creative experience.

My parents are pretty liberal. But they were just you know trying to look out for my innocence or whatever. But my babysitter had "Forever" [by Judy Blume]. And I said "Well I've read Judy Blume books, can I borrow that?" And she said no, this one's not appropriate for you. Which obviously, got me really worked up. So I took it.