I'm the hero of this story, I don't need to be saved

Maybe you should kiss someone who is nice, or lick a rock, or both.

The world that has made us can no longer contain us

I just like being all over the place and writing whatever comes to mind. Having the tools? It's such a gift.

When I walk through the city, I just think that I see my family. I see us in everybody, you know? I see us.

I would really hate it if I could call up Kafka or Hemingway or Salinger and any question I could throw at them they would have an answer. That's the magic when you read or hear something wonderful - there's no one that has all the answers.

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.