I felt a tremendous distance between myself and everything real.

A man can live on his wits and his balls for only so long.

Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairytale artist.

I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone's imagination.

Richard Nixon was an evil man - evil in a way that only those who believe in the physical reality of the Devil can understand it. He was utterly without ethics or morals or any bedrock sense of decency.

We had to be parents by long distance, which is far from satisfactory.