Somebody's got to tell all the people to be like the water

You decide if you're ready for something. It can come in the guise of, "Oh, I don't think I like this."

I love stories, I love myths, I love fairytales, I love Kafka.

I have the coolest parents.

Sometimes I make stuff, and even I don't like it. There's something about it that I don't really like, or annoys me. For whatever reason it needs to come out.

It's painful to watch your parents not be in control of things.

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.