I think jogging is bad for your health. All that pressure on the knees and back cannot be good for you.

Your life must now run the course that's been set for it.

What interests me is the surprising enormous extent to which most people accept the fate that's been given to them, and find some dignity.

As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.

The problem, as I see it, is that you've been told and not told. You've been told, but none of you really understand, and I dare say, some people are quite happy to leave it that way.

I had been plunged into a different world. I found myself spending half my time answering weird questions on book tours in the Midwest. People would stand up and explain to me the situation in their office and ask me whether they should resign or not.

I wouldn't want to try to adapt something of my own. It would be like going back to school and doing all my exams again.