You find the book in the process of doing it. That's the adventure of the job.
Every man is the author of his own life.
I thought I was terrible [to play a cameo] and decided never to act again.
I think that sense of unreality inspired me to write the story within the book that [August] Brill tells himself, one of the stories he tells himself.
What better portrait of a writer than to show a man who has been bewitched by books?
I'm generous. I give good tips. It's just - the way I live my life, ironically enough, is: I don't want anything. I'm not a consumer. I don't crave objects.