The feeling of self-discovery, for me, is perennial.

The stories of kids who grew up in communities like mine weren't being written about in many books for kids.

I'm writing all the books I wish I had when I was a kid.

All I want kids to know is that I see them for who they are and not who everyone thinks they are.

We would finish dinner, and then we'd all sit around as a family and watch 'Roseanne.' That was a big one.

I'm hanging out with my New York friends, my Jersey boys, my family and loving every single second of it.

I grew up in a working-class Israeli family, which was feminist only in its female-dominated structure.

To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time.