When I feel like being a director, I write a novel.
Whatever I write, no matter how gray or dark the subject matter, it's
still going to be a comic novel.
(What he calls his incredibly popular novel "The World According to
Garp"): "An artfully-disguised soap opera."
There's a minority which is an open target in this country which no one protects, and that's rich people.
In my novels I have always been attracted to sexual outsiders or misfits. I am drawn to these characters because I love them. But I also fear for them. I'm afraid of how the more mainstream world will abuse and mistreat them.