[on his novel 'Why Men Lie'] I wanted to explore the fact that men and women become different in different ways when they start to age. Men become more uncomfortable with manhood in the sense that what they consider to be the main characteristics of manhood diminish. Women, I think, come into their own. Because those characteristics that define womanhood culturally cease to matter very much - the ability to bear children, sex appeal - they become liberated from expectations.
