People look for morals in fiction because there has always been a confusion between fiction and philosophy.

I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss - you can't do it alone.

That's the way I remember them, heading for an exit.

All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.

Few people know that I grew up in Germany and that my family still lives there.

I was an assistant once. I worked for Rob Reiner and his family. I did sign a confidentiality agreement, though.

My dad's a Jew, and my mom's a WASP, so that should pretty much say it all. It was a comically dysfunctional family.

Mittelstand companies are incredibly focused and almost always family-run. The young men and women go through the apprenticeship system and learn that the goal is excellence.