I wake my wife up at 3 a.m. and say, "Listen to this!"

What a bog and labyrinth the human essence is... We are all overbrained and overemotioned.

The first two drinks were always wonderfully liberating. You think better. You're braver, and you'll say anything. If you could just hang in there with two or three, it'd be beautiful. The trouble was I couldn't.

The wild stuff is all so overrated. Drinking, you don't feel good all the time. There's a lot of down, a lot of misery.

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

I lost my second marriage because of drinking, and I loved the woman very much. But I thought I needed booze to write. I'm glad I was disabused.

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