I turned forty, and Im finally going to get married and maybe have a kid.

If I'm going to feel estranged and alienated and away from home I don't want anyone interrupting it to debate which berries to have in their pancakes.

I always feel I have made unfilmable books. I even felt that way about a book of mine that was later made into a movie. But my wife, who has made two films, thinks this one would make a very original film. I'm all for original films.

It turns out that my memory is just not that great, so for specific scenes with people doing stuff, sometimes I'd have the details all wrong or I couldn't remember what happened exactly, so I just let that be.

There is no right or wrong reading of Naked Lunch, though some readings are more common, and thus Burroughs commercial is not the issue.

The process of composition, messing around with paragraphs and trying to make really good prose, is hardwired into my personality.

Updike worked this way, and I just kinda borrowed it from him. So the memoir will be relief from novel writing for a moment.