My Relationship With My Readers

I Can Tell From About 20 Yards Away When Someone Has A Manuscript For Me. I Can Just Tell - They Have That Look.

I've Always Wanted To Be A Poet At The Beginning. I Would Look At My Grandparents' Books And My Parents' Books. And In My Family, A Typical Aspirational Jewish Family, Being A Writer Was Very Much Exalted, And It Seemed Impossible To Me, That I Could Ever Do Something Like That.

Sometimes I Think My Purpose Is As A Saboteur When I'm Working With Other People, Derailing What They're Trying To Do Or Taking Things To A Ludicrous Extremity.

I Was An Infinitely Hot And Dense Dot.

When You Are A Child, You Often Stare Too Closely At The Wrong Thing. I Remember The First Time I Was Taken To Yankee Stadium. Someone Had Spilled Something Sweet Earlier In The Day And The Ground Was Covered With Ants. I Spent The Whole Game Staring At The Ants, And That Was More Fascinating Than The Game.