The writing is what gives me the joy, especially editing myself for the page, and getting something ready to show to the editors, and then to have a first draft and get it back and work to fix it, I love reworking, I love editing, love love love revision, revision, revision, revision.

Some people think of the glass as half full. Some people think of the glass as half empty. I think of the glass as too big.

The secretiveness. The stealth. Those were obviously the aspects of cocaine use I was addicted to.

I was taken to the hospital for observation. I stayed several days, didn't observe anything, and I left.

So I do have this ambivalence. Obviously I'm against militaries, because of what militaries do. In many ways though, the air force was unmilitary-like. They dropped bombs on people, but...they had a golf course.

Writing books isn't a drastic departure from writing for the stage.

If you can't say something nice about a person, go ahead