We took ‘BFF’ around to try and take it somewhere else because we were really proud of it, and it had gotten all that critical acclaim, and Twitter fans were going crazy about it.

Several people, not just reviewers, took me to task for writing about what they called the working classes – something I’ve been doing for 40 years. I thought that was contemptible – what do they...

It took me nine months to write 60 pages. It was very frustrating.

I took to the luge when I was very young, but I never imagined that it would become my passion. At 14, I was already competing on artificial tracks.

Compromise and tolerance are magic words. It took me 40 years to become philosophical.

I took some lessons as a kid but trained myself by ear. I did it the way jazz musicians used to learn years ago, which is to play records and slow them down to figure...

It took me many years to understand that my identity is more Israeli than Jewish.

I was a psych major in college and I actually owned two white lab rats. I had to train them and I took them home so that’s just kind of missing for me.