I've really never written about my relationships, or things like that. I wouldn't want to divulge things that were too private.

Something has happened where you almost never grow up in America. Maybe it's the greater wealth.

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

It's hard for me to think of writing a novel, because it takes so long.

I wish we had a dog in the show so that I could get to be a dog for a day.

Don't hold me to anything in the book. I'm a waffler. I like wafflers. They said John Kerry was a waffler, but I admired him for that - showed he could change his mind.

No one I interact with - except maybe for family and strangers at the Russian baths and other weird places I may go to - is just friends or lovers with me: they also know something of my writing and this distorts their take on me.