I think of memory as a game, that is as something one engages in with a very profound kind of "playfulness."

I've always wanted to be a poet at the beginning. I would look at my grandparents' books and my parents' books. And in my family, a typical aspirational Jewish family, being a writer was very much exalted, and it seemed impossible to me, that I could ever do something like that.

My relationship with my readers is somewhat theatrical. One of the main things I try to do in my work is delight my readers.

I think to simply make fun of something isn't particularly interesting. I try to not just do a parody of something or belittle something or disparage something.

The interesting thing about something in the back of your mind is that it can travel pretty far back in your mind.

I've always been entranced with theater.

I think people got in touch with me either knowing my work, or probably more frequently just knowing a plot or sort of buzz about something I did and sort of saying, "Get that guy that writes the crazy stuff in here."