Both my parents were big readers. My dad liked more macho adventure books like Shogun or spy novels. My mother reads murder mysteries. In fact, so does her mother, my grandma.

I was never afraid on stage. That's where I was the least afraid. I could just do what I do and I had the amplification and the lights.

I've never even done a residency.

When you create a fence, you keep people out, but you also limit your mobility.

I have to say I do read partly for escapism. Why can't I escape and learn something?

There is something very romantic about the orphan figure in American literature.

There seem to be two ways of generating interest from the reader: withholding information or by telling the reader on the first page exactly what's going to happen.