I should tell you that many people think that authors just cut and paste from real life into books. It doesn't work quite that way.

I'm able to leave Don Draper at work. I'm quite dissimilar from him in real life.

You have your real life and then you have your work.

I wouldn't say you have an online life and a real life. I think technology is just mapping and organizing what already exists.

People in real life don't get ballplayers' humor, the way we talk in the clubhouse.

I don't think people want to see me as a regular guy; besides, I'm a regular guy in real life. I guess I just want to be reckless in my work.