My point of view comes more from the literature I've read and the comedy of the era. When I was a kid, coming across National Lampoon Magazine, that was a big thing. I suddenly felt like there were other people that felt the way I did, and there was a way of expressing and communicating this worldview.

I'm not into extreme sports or something. I just live a quiet life.

Sometimes I don't like the books that I'm reading.

Everything I've written is personal - it's the only way I know how to write.

I do throw out a lot of ideas, and I forget completely about them.

I can never watch anything I've been involved in, because I know it, and I know what the making of it was like, and I know what's been cut out and changed. I just know it.

I think dreams are metaphors. Everything you do in writing is metaphorical. So it seems like the same arena to me.