It's just gossip, you know. Gossip is the new pornography.

It's all through the actors; I cannot write in that idiom

Ads answered out of desperation in the New York Review of Books proved equally futile as…the 'Bay Area Bisexual' told me I didn't quite coincide with either of her desires.

What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.

When I naturally write a story and I feel that the guy is sitting across the table from the girl and flirting with her... I think, 'God, that can't be me' because I'm just too old for that part. You need a 30-year-old or a 35-year-old for that part. And so I've given myself less and less roles.

I think Frank Capra was a much craftier filmmaker, a wonderful filmmaker. He had enormous technique, and he knew how to manipulate the public quite brilliantly.

What was the scandal? I fell in love with this girl, married her. We have been married for almost 15 years now.