He had a massive stroke. He died with his tie on. Do you think that could be our generation's equivalent of that old saying about dying with your boots on?

I didn't go to bars much. One drunken asshole was all I could handle and that was me. I wrote. I don't remember a lot of it.

I get inspiration, a lot of times, from very commonplace things that just strike a chord and develop themselves in the subconscious.

The book is not the important part. The book is the delivery system. The important part is the story and the talent.

I think there ought to be some serious discussion by smart people, really smart people, about whether or not proliferation of things like The Smoking Gun and TMZ and YouTube and the whole celebrity culture is healthy.

And I guess you judge how well you're doing by how well you sleep at night... and what your dreams are like.

The turtle couldn't help us.