Writing about your own life is weird. Sometimes I feel that I should go out and do something crazy just because it will make a good chapter. That is a very strange way to live. We all want love and security in real life but that would actually make for a pretty boring book. If I seduce my twenty-four-year-old babysitter and get her to break up with her fiancee, for example, then I'd have something people might want to read.

I guess fortunately for the readers and for myself I've already done plenty of stupid things. And at forty-four I'd like to think that the stupidest of the stupid things that I will do in my life are behind me.