I was also known as Frodo because I was an early adopter of 'The Lord of the Rings.

I have actual dreams of Bruce Springsteen calling me up on stage to wear a bandanna and play rhythm guitar next to Little Steven.

I was writing very early, like I was involved in our high school literary magazine, which was called 'Pariah.' The football team was the Bears, and the literary magazine was 'Pariah.' It was great. It was definitely a real sub-culture. But I wrote stories for them.

Once you'd broken through that invisible barrier that separates one person from another, you were connected forever, whether you liked it or not.

My wife and I left New York when she got pregnant - we just thought it would be really hard to stay in the city.

I write about kids growing up, I write a lot about schools and parents, and all of my experiences with those things have been suburban experiences.

She would be a mentor and an inspiration to girls like herself, the quiet ones who'd sleepwalked their way through high school, knowing nothing except that they couldn't possibly be happy with any of the choices the world seemed to be offering them.