I hid my underwear beneath a parked Peugeot.

I didn't play or like a lot of board games as a child. I liked playing with my G.I. Joes and making up adventures for them.

There's no shortage of material in life.

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.

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.

I started puberty very late. I was nearly sixteen. And for complicated reasons this late arrival of my puberty caused me to stop playing competitive tennis. But before my puberty problem, I had trouble with my lower back and with my left testicle.

I promote my own self-hatred.