Virginia Woolf's great novel, 'Mrs. Dalloway,' is the first great book I ever read. I read it almost by accident when I was in high school, when I was 15 years old.

I suspect any serious reader has a first great book, just the way anybody has a first kiss.

When I was in high school, I read all of Neil Simon's plays.

I went to high school in Stockton, CA.

I read 'The Great Gatsby' in high school and was hypnotized by the beauty of the sentences and moved by the story about the irrevocability of lost love.

I don't read them. I haven't read them since high school. If you got in trouble or weren't doing well in class, they'd make a big deal about it and say you couldn't play in college. I felt bad. It's not everyone's business. How can people say that when they don't know the whole story?