I'm Not The Betting Kind.

I've Always Been Really Curious About Things And Slightly Confused By The World, And I Think Someone Who Feels That Way Is In A Good Position To Be The One Asking Questions.

So When The Book Came Out, My Mother Stunned Us All By Leaving My Father. I Think Three Months Before The Book Came Out, She Left My Father The Day He Retired From The Marine Corps. They Had A Parade And March, And She Came Home And Left.

The Excitement For Me Lies Not So Much In Interviewing The Hard-to-get Famous Person, But The Person Whom You Are About To Discover. You Know, Like Maybe The Character Actors Who Are Just Coming Into Their Own And You're Realizing How Great They Are.

I Learned That I Never Really Know The True Story Of My Guests' Lives, That I Have To Content Myself With Knowing That When I'm Interviewing Somebody, I'm Getting A Combination Of Fact And Truth And Self-mythology And Self-delusion And Selective Memory And Faulty Memory.

All My Brothers And Sisters Have Stories About Dad Like This. I Remember, When My Sister Was About To Beat Him In Checkers For The First Time, He Knocked The Board Over.