I don't like to publicly acknowledge being a Jew.

I drink coffee. Without coffee, I probably couldnt write.

People don't expect too much from literature. They just want to know they're not alone with being confused.

I am part of a vast generation of people who perpetually live as if they just graduated from college.

I need to stay in the present and use that new-age mantra: 'I'm okay right now.' But I worry about all the things I'm failing at every moment.

I've always been intrigued by Stockholm Syndrome. Reminds me of my childhood.

Having a show get canceled is like, 'Oh, you have caviar between your teeth,' you know what I mean? Because you had a show in the first place.

Something has happened where you almost never grow up in America. Maybe it's the greater wealth.

I don't really recognise success. I don't see myself as on an upwardly mobile trajectory. I see myself as on the edge of a cliff about to fall off.

Oh, God, I don't know what's more difficult, life or the English language.

I am always the source of the worst rumors about myself.

Constantly downcast leads to the death bed.

I've never tried to be famous or become a bestseller, just rich and remembered. The rest is a bonus.

I don't want to say that in a place that's negative about what the fear is. I just want to be a realist.

Forgiveness is not a matter of who is right or wrong. It is a matter of doing the right thing.

An artist's fine goal is to manifest a well-nigh heroic self-discipline, carefully attending to all that concerns him.

The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech.

If I cannot smoke in heaven, then I shall not go.

Things I don't understand don't destroy my faith in the things I do understand.

I lived in Greece. I had a lot of party experience there.

There are interesting scientific and historical connections between these things that I just love.