I graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with an English literature degree and travelled for a year before going to work.

When I'm Los Angeles, it's work. That's what I'm there for is work.

I attended private Catholic schools in Paris and Los Angeles through high school.

I'll be going to the granddaddy of the Los Angeles theaters.

It's [Los Angeles] mostly full of nonsense and delusion and egomania. They think they'll be young and beautiful forever, even though most of them aren't even young and beautiful now.

Literature offers the thrill of minds of great clarity wrestling with the endless problems and delights of being human. To engage with them is to engage with oneself, and the lasting rewards are not confined to specific career paths.