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 was a garbage man in New Jersey in summers during college at Yale. Everybody else got to go to Switzerland and I got to go to the dump.

As for writing about temptation, there's no drama without temptation, and no novel without drama.

Back then, when everybody thought the world would last forever, nobody had time for anything.

I find that even small changes sometimes jog you out of a mental rut.

I used to describe myself as a comic novelist, but my concerns seem to have darkened over the past few years.

It just so happened that for most of my life I've lived in the suburbs.