I used to describe myself as a comic novelist, but my concerns seem to have darkened over the past few years.

My wife and I left New York when she got pregnant - we just thought it would be really hard to stay in the city.

I read 'The Great Gatsby' in high school and was hypnotized by the beauty of the sentences and moved by the story about the irrevocability of lost love.

My novels are certainly more exciting than my own life.

I grew up in an agricultural family, and I never distanced myself from where the food comes from. I think it's quite natural.

Theo does comedy now, and he's traveling around the country doing comedy, and I actually just saw him, he's from Louisiana, and I just saw him when I went home to visit my family in Louisiana. I saw his comedy show and he was brilliant.

For me, my work, family, and fans are the most important; rest is just there.

Barack's mother was very important to him, but he spent a great deal of his life living in a different place. So, as all kids do, you always have a fantasy of what perfection would be. And my guess is that Michelle's childhood was his idea of perfection. It allowed him to anchor himself with her and with her family.