When I look in the mirror, I don't see my Dad, I see my grandmother. For a while it was my mother looking back at me. If only it was my Dad.

It used to be that I was always paranoid or a loser or something so there's usually something that you seem to associate yourself with at one time or another.

My singing voice is somewhere between a drunken apology and a plumbing problem.

I'll be your friend so long as you're not crap

I do think a good story in a novel is fair game and there's nothing wrong with adapting that. It sometimes gets a bit facile where they think: "Let's get the next best-seller and see if we can turn it into a film."

My grandmother was a minister as well, which was not that common in the 1930s.

Sometimes to think about why some institutions are stable, it's interesting to go one generation back and look at the author of that stability.