I locked myself in a room for a month,

I hadn't published a book in six years so I didn't know what to expect. It has been going very well. They've all been packed.

I'm a believer that a book should exist on its own,

After spending three years with Patrick Bateman (from 1991's

I totally relate to Tom Cruise, ... He?s not crazy, it?s just the litany of the mid-life crisis.

you simply didn't have to pay as much attention to things. The precise pose was no longer required.

As a writer you slant all evidence in favor of the conclusions you want to produce, and you rarely tilt in favor of the truth,

The writer in the new novel is haunted by everything - his father, the things he wrote. American Psycho haunts me and it will be on my gravestone. That's why it is such an important part of Lunar Park .

We were all such Didion junkies in college that might still be the highlight of my career.

Fun is what reading a book should be. I had fun writing it. I wanted a reader to be gripped but it shouldn't be a heavy experience.