My career as a magazine writer was largely prefaced on the idea of curiosity, to go on adventures and weasel my way into the lives of people that I admire.

What would I put in a museum? Probably a museum! That's an amusing relic of our past.

Comics have a problem, and that is continuity - the obsession with placing the characters in an existing world, where every event is marked in canon. You're supposed to believe that these weepy star boys of now are the same gung-ho super teens fighting space monsters in the '60s, and they've only aged perhaps five years.

It would be rather naive to imagine that Oprah doesn't have an Earth Evacuation Plan. You know Richard Branson does - his is in plain sight.

I always assumed that like my mother before me, one day I would have children.

I've always felt as much outside the Jewish experience as in it. It astonished my family that I wrote about things Jewish.

I grew up in a nonpolitical family. My mother basically hated everybody.

Nobody in my family ever thought that I'd a be a model.