I'm a big Philip Roth fan. I think "American Pastoral" is the great American novel of the past 30 to 40 years. It's a novel about what happened in the 1960s, and I think America is still dealing with what happened then. It's devastatingly sad.

A dream is the mind's way of answering a question it hasn't yet figured out how to ask.

As I've gotten older I've become a devotee of 19th-century authors, such as Charles Dickens and George Eliot.

Patrick Stewart was the first internet sex symbol without hair but pileggi always thought it was him.

I drive an electric car.

Maybe the best things about celebrity are the things like being able to get that seat on the plane that you wouldn't normally get, but that's kind of like cheating.

I got married a bit late, I agree. In any other period of history I'd have been dead at that age and they'd have assumed I was gay. Like Michelangelo, or Leonardo da Vinci. But I was a late developer. I didn't go through puberty until I was 35.