Our landlord said it best - it's a city. So treat it like a city. You should be aware of your surroundings. Don't do anything stupid.

I could see us being here for five years, but 10 years, I don't know. We've moved around so much, who knows.

I have been pleasantly surprised; there are families, there are pets. It also has an international feel. Jersey City is a sort of hidden gem....I think it is coming into its own.

When I was in high school and college, my other real focus was, actually, fiction writing. So in college, I had done all these seminars with these various writers-in-residence.

Instead of working for the survival of the fittest, we should be working for the survival of the wittiest - then we can all die laughing.

My mother used to take me to flea markets in my stroller, and I would just rummage through the piles. You've got to dig through the overstuffed racks that everyone else just walks by. It's the only way to find the cool stuff.