The only sensible approach is not to take it too seriously. What counts is the writing.

I think men talk to women so they can sleep with them and women sleep with men so they can talk to them.

Bottles of wine aren't like paintings. At some point you have to consume them. The object in life is to die with no bottles of wine in your cellar. To drink your last bottle of wine and go to sleep that night and not wake up.

Mine is not an autonomous imagination.

My former wife is a very eccentric woman, which is why I still love her.

Reading a novel is just a much more involving and intimate experience than the act of watching a film. I mean, you literally get inside of a novelist's head, and you invest many hours to do so.

Something changed. Somewhere along the line you stopped accelerating.