I watch golf on television, although I don't golf - except for visits to the driving range in spurts.

Five hundred words a day is what I aim for. And I don't go on to the next chapter until I've polished and polished and polished the one I'm working on.

I was nearly fired from my second job, which was writing press releases for Boston's public television station.

My narrators tend to be women with low self-esteem, so I can send them to charm school.

I was a roving guard on the Lowell Hebrew Community Center's girls' basketball team all through high school. My specialty was stealing the ball, but my only shot was a lay-up.

I wear a pedometer, aiming for five miles a day - don't be too impressed; that includes walking around my house and food shopping.

Always happens with men. They promise friendship. They promise to treat you as an equal. In the end, all they want is to possess you.

You have to stretch your soul to find your potential strength.

A wise man once said that the opposite of being alive is being boring, so for God’s sake, don’t be boring !

For every laugh, there should be a tear.

I have long considered it one of God's greatest mercies that the future is hidden from us. If it were not, life would surely be unbearable.

Love wants to be confirmed with concrete symbols, but recklessness loves instability.

It is a maxim that man and wife should never have it in their power to hang one another.

We need to take on the new media, and in terms of power and public pedagogy, we need to organize a whole range of people outside of the academy.

One of my favorite horror films of the Nineties was 'Event Horizon.'

I really love 'Dexter.' I'd like to be on 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' or 'Breaking Bad'.