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"No adultery is bloodless."
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"I kept thinking there were two kinds of adults: There were...miserable creatures who scoured the earth in search of something to hurt. And then there were people like my parents, who walked around zombically, doing whatever they had to do to keep walking around."

"One afternoon, I am complaining about the confusion of my age, what is expected of me versus what I want for myself."

"Autobiography is now as common as adultery and hardly less reprehensible."

"I didn't run off with the secretary. It made it seem like I had committed adultery and then ran off with a secretary, neither of which happened."

"That goes against what I believe morally. That's adultery, and if I'm accused of that, no, that's not right. I have two kids who see that and remember that and judge me. It didn't happen, and it's not to be reported that way."

"As a musician I tell you that if you were to suppress adultery, fanaticism, crime, evil, the supernatural, there would no longer be the means for writing one note."
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