To spend your days in the company of naked men - that was the life for me. 'Turn a bit to the left, Jean-Claude. I long to capture the playful quality of your buttocks.

When you read comic material and people aren't laughing how do you know they're listening.

You need to give the reader a reason to turn the page. In a diary, you are just yourself. You aren't trying to entertain. You aren't trying to get anyone to turn the page. I have over one hundred and fifty six volumes of my diary and I guarantee you that if you read them, you'd stop and never come back.

What I really hated, of course, was my mind. There must have been an off switch somewhere, but I was damned if I could find it.

I'm not a reporter but the 'New Yorker' treats everyone like a reporter.

Actually I liked that 'Let the Right One In,' that Swedish vampire movie.

Of course, the diary helps me as well. 'That wasn't your position on July 7, 1991,' I'll remind Hugh an hour after we've had a fight. I'd have loved to rebut him sooner, but it takes awhile to look these things up.