I don't really care about plot; I want to have a page-turner in a different kind of way.

I always intended to be light and open. I misjudged the American audience.

You've got to lie to stay halfway interested in yourself.

I wanted very much to be Miles Davis when I was a boy, but without the practice. It just looked like an endless road.

I don't really care about plot; I want to have a page-turner in a different kind of way.

Children will listen to anything elders say to survive, and if you grew up without an elder telling you there was a god, what did your parents say to you?

The alcohol had the code and mystery about it as a writer's drug, but I'm glad that's been debunked. But the trouble with the drinking, much as I hate to admit it, is it helped the work.