I sort of play golf because a lot of my friends are into it, but I'm awful - my handicap is about six or seven thousand.

I love television. I think we're in a renaissance of epic proportion in television now.

Narrative becomes the way you make sense of chaos. That's how you focus the world. It's the only reason you should ever try this writing job.

She smiled darkly and shook her head. 'I'm not crazy. I'm not. Of course what else would a crazy person claim? That's the Kafkaesque genius of it all. If you're not crazy but people have told the world you are, then all your protests to the contrary just underscore their point. Do you see what I'm saying?

Happiness comes in moments, & then it's gone until the next time. Could be years. But sadness settles it.

Which would be worse - to live as a monster, or to die as a good man?

I was blessed to grow up in really interesting times and to go back to a home where I was very safe.