I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been.

I just don't feel much interested in the lifestyles of the rich and famous.

Youth is the only sexy tragedy. It's James Dean jumping into his Porsche Spyder, it's Marilyn heading off to bed.

But there are still the hours, aren't there? One and then another, and you get through that one and then, my god, there's another.

I don't have any regrets, really, except that one. I wanted to write about you, about us, really. Do you know what I mean? I wanted to write about everything, the life we're having and the lives we might have had. I wanted to write about all the ways we might have died.

I think writing is, by definition, an optimistic act.

A certain slightly cruel disregard for the feelings of living people is simply part of the package. I think a writer, if hes any good, is not an entirely benign entity in the world.