The work changes the way your face changes and ages - it just does. Also, I have very little connection to anything I've written. I move on. We all move on

I've always been inspired by Don Quixote as a role model of sorts, of the power of books to sort of make you insane in maybe a beautiful way.

It's hard to leave New York: this is where my friends are, my parents are. It is so vital. The whole world seems to look to New York.

I enjoy both TV writing and novel writing, and they are very similar. The goal is to entertain and amuse the audience, and I subscribe to this P.G. Wodehouse piece of advice: "Try to give pleasure with every sentence."

I don't really know the person who wrote the things I wrote. I kind of know him, but I change so much all the time that it's like I start fresh over and over and over and over. Writing-wise and life-wise.

Then again, the name, the associations with a writer's name, can add to the reader's entertainment and pleasure.

People don't expect too much from literature. They just want to know they're not alone with being confused.