Being attacked by right-wing Christians did not bother me. Being attacked by liberal feminists did.

I didn't want to repeat my parents life. I saw in their lives a routine and a lack of dreaming, a lack of the possibilities, a lack of passion. And I didn't want to live without passion.

It's very difficult to censor anything anymore.

What would make it very difficult to take society back to a repressive time would be technology. The arrival of the Internet.

Power has not corrupted me. I have not become jaded. I wake up every day well aware of my good fortune, loving the work I do, loving my life, realizing that life is a crapshoot and I'm on a roll second to none.

I guess you could say, I'm just a typical Methodist kid at heart.

At a very early age I started a cartoon scrapbook, actually when I was in high school. And it became, in turn, a scrapbook of my life. And there are about 2,000 volumes.