I could count my modeling jobs on my hands and toes. When I graduated from college, I moved to New York specifically to study acting, and I needed to pay the bills, and it's better to make a couple thousand dollars in one day than to wait tables six days a week.
“In Mozart and Salieri we see the contrast between the genius which does what it must and the talent which does what it can.”
“My favorite period is World War II, and I'm in the middle of writing my fourth novel set in that era.”