Maybe with "Californication" the character was partly based on Rick Moody. I read him and Jay McInerney, the templates for this bad boy novelist.

I don't know how anybody gets better at anything aside from doing it.

I love dogs. They live in the moment and don't care about anything except affection and food. They're loyal and happy. Humans are just too damn complicated.

I don't discount belief. I just discount most of the things that people believe in.

In high school and college, I was an athlete.

I don't want to know what happens in any movie that I go to see.

A bath tub, apparently, was the first thing I wanted to be.