I saw it. It was very funny. I think he's trying to take the high moral ground.

The funny thing is, as a young person I was trying to write prose, and I wrote a lot of it, but I was never satisfied with the results. Two of the novels I wound up finishing and publishing later I started very early on, in my early 20's, In The Country Of Last Things and Moon Palace. Both of those books I worked a great deal on but never quite got a grip on either one.

It's a little like the Mafia. A friend of mine is a friend of yours.

That cat goes on a kill-crazy rampage when spring comes. She eats them.

It's not easy to accomplish, but he certainly has the means to do so. I have a plan I'd like to discuss.

I'm sure for a little while everybody's going to watch their step and then it will be back to business as usual. And that's not really that bad.