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I went to a shrink once, but I caught him going to a fortune-teller so I quit.

I think shrinks are interesting to write about because you get to see what the character chooses to reveal, and what behaviors or stances the character tries out on the shrink that might not be part of the character's make-up outside of that room. It's an emotional test-kitchen.

Whenever you see shrinks on television, they're so clearly written by patients. They're either idealized or they're demonized or they love their patients. All they ever think about is their patients.

I've never been to a shrink. But my parents were very psychologically literate - my father had undergone Freudian analysis - and we often talked about other people in psychological terms, so I picked up a lot of that.

I have very little choice. If I don't write, I feel dreadful. So I write.

I only write about what I do, what happens to me.

I feel a burden if I don't write.

I don't know how I dealt with it. I went to a shrink.

I can't not write, if I don't then I get really depressed.