It doesn't do to eat too much before a performance.

As a baseball player, you know the commodity you're selling, but with acting, you wonder, 'What the hell am I doing that is so hot?'

That's what interests me about film: directing.

Actors usually have a lot in common with kids.

Prose is admittedly an art rooted in social intercourse, and a fiction writer is faster to find a common denominator with his cell mates than a poet is.

These days, newish art can be priced between $10,000 and $25,000. When I tell artists that a new painting by a newish artist should go for around $1,200, they look at me like I'm a flesh-eating virus.

Kashmir, the 86,000-square-mile region in India's north, both is and isn't the India of the popular imagination.

I guess I'm a very keen observer, and I'd like to think I have a good imagination.