I Think As I Have Gotten Older,

People Really Want To Believe That There Is No Fiction. I Think They Find It Much Easier To Imagine That Novelists Are Writing Memoirs, Writing About Their Lives, Because It's Difficult To Conceive That There's A Great Imaginary Life In Which You Can Participate.

So Where Does The Name Adam's Apple Come From? Most People Say That It Is From The Notion That This Bump Was Caused By The Forbidden Fruit Getting Stuck In The Throat Of Adam In The Garden Of Eden. There Is A Problem With This Theory Because Some Hebrew Scholars Believe That The Forbidden Fruit Was The Pomegranate. The Koran Claims That The Forbidden Fruit Was A Banana. So Take Your Pick---adam's Apple, Adam's Pomegranate, Adam's Banana. Eve Clearly Chewed Before Swallowing.

In Me, Speaking Psychologically, There Is Always An Ongoing Struggle Between My Enormously Self-regarding, Almost Delusionally Aspirational, Napoleonic Personality And A Marginalized One.

Stand-up Comedy Had An Interesting Effect On Me In Terms Of How I Started To Think About Constructing Things, Because I Really Loved The Interstices, The Linkages, Or Lack Thereof.

“et Tu, Babe” Was Born Out Of My Absolute Certainty That A Writer’s Life Was Solitary And Insular, And I Was Happy With That. I Love Reading And Writing, It’s My Whole Life.