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

I had lived in New York since 1996, sometimes in the worst neighborhoods, without even locking my door half the time.

I like change. I've never really had much consistency in my life, you know, from everyday work to my living situation to whether or not I'm going to be in L.A. The one constant thing in my life is my friends and family, which is all I need

We lost so many talented artists and writers from the generations before ours that we're really lacking older figureheads.

It's just as political, what you do in the bedroom is just as political as what you do in public.

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

We've come under the influence of television, where in all honesty we can follow a show that could just get cancelled midway through the season and the entire plotline never resolves itself.