I was a kid, and I was very excited to experience this whole new world. And everything was fun, everything from, oh, wow, we get bananas - I'd only seen them in picture books, you know - to, like, the diversity of the neighborhood and to explore Judaism for the first time. It was really hushed in the Soviet Union.

Not everything in the world is easy or powerful.

I think both you and I, we live in a world of fiction and stories.

You can take art, you can have a baby, you can have a career.

I hate picking favourite books. I usually tend to stay away from all the 'top record' and 'favourite song' and 'favourite book', and I just think it doesn't do any good for anybody.

I always have kind of a few books going at the same time.

I've got a perfect body, 'cause my eyelashes catch my sweat