Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It's also about mutual help, not about exploitation.

If you're a misanthrope you stay at home. There are certain writers who really don't like other people. I'm not like that, I don't think.

When I began to make some money, I really wanted to have a home.

The moment that changed me for ever was the moment my first child was born. I was happy, filled with hope, and thought, 'Now I understand the whole point of work, of life, of love.'

The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson's on the main drag into maturity.