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I wrote the memoir, and there are certain people I still expect to jump out of the bushes and kill me. This way, no one’s going to hold me accountable for anything.

A pulp novelist goes literary.

"I once spent an hour in an airport watching someone read a book of mine�watching him turn the pages and chew his lips."

All writers are hunters, and parents are the most available prey.

The idea that I would write purely artistically is a naïve idea.

"I don't know [if I was trying to shock people]. I just try to entertain myself. And I'm highly entertained by sex."

The book industry's new numerical populism.

"The thing that really focused me was the sewers, which hadn't been well documented fictionally. I guess you could say my mind was in the gutter."

That we're here in Chelsea, and we've all been waiting for an hour to meet a guy in a black cowboy hat, smoking a cigar, says something tremendous about America.

Reading a great writer, without sense or sensibility.