We had a kid. The kid was awesome. She didn't fall asleep easily. We complained about it. We got frustrated. But we didn't look for an out. We just accepted that this was part of parenting.

Being Jewish is a big part of my artistic sensibility and my humor... I think it gives me a certain take on the world on a literary level.

It's hilarious to me that by writing an obscene fake children's book I am mistaken for a parenting expert.

The genius of vinyl is that it allows - commands! - us to put our fingerprints all over that history: to blend and chop and reconfigure it, mock and muse upon it, backspin and skip through it.

... omniscience about life and death is not within a physician's purview. A doctor should never write off a person a priori.

Life is what's happening while you're worrying.

Academic achievement was something I'd always sought as a form of reward. Good grades pleased my parents, good grades pleased my teachers; you got them in order to sew up approval.

When a language creates - as it does - a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy of a community between the present and the past.

I think any spiritual experience that's worthwhile is not about ego and it will humble you in some way. And also, a Zen monk once said to me, 'If you're not laughing, then you're not getting it.'

Tastes in young people are changed by natural impetuosity, and in the aged are preserved by habit.

We're all generous, but with different things, like time, money, talent - criticism.

Making something simple is very difficult.

It is a gratification to me to know that I am ignorant of art... Because people who understand art find nothing in pictures but blemishes.

Solitude is nothing that one can choose or retrain from. We are solitary. We can delude ourselves about this and act as if it were not true. That is all.