I don't know if [Samuel] Beckett is something you ever bring to the beach - get out of the water, towel off, and start reading some of "The Unnamable." Although, because it's the kind of book you can open to any page and start reading, it is beach reading in that way.

I lost my virginity when I was 14. And I haven't been able to find it.

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

In this age of media and Internet access, we are much more talkative than ever before.

I think [kids] enjoy reading, but it's a different world now. There are a lot of competitors for the imaginative attention.

Privacy is something I have come to respect. I think when I was younger I wanted to tell everybody everything, because I thought I was so damn interesting. Then I heard the snoring.

I always dreamt of being a basketball player. A dream that only I believed in.