Writing is a lonely job unless you're a drinker, in which case you always have a friend within reach.

Writing is a lonely job unless you're a drinker, in which case you always have a friend within reach.

If only media people would stop reaching for the low-hanging fruit, which is cynicism and pessimism, and stopped trying so hard to be hip and cool and have a swagger.

I'm a wonderful disaster. So are you. We're all a mess. We're in this culture that says take this pill and you'll be happy, go on this diet and you'll be thinner, have your teeth whitened, people will love you more.

What does it take to get you to the point where you have to kill your brother? It's biblical, it's huge. It's so personal.

You look at 1968 and it was truly the year that shook the world. The world was really completely upside down.