Simpson: I loved your book, by the way.

Greenspan: Thank you.

Simpson: As I was reading it, I was thinking to myself, He?s writing in a whole new voice, isn?t he?

Greenspan: After years of testifying before Congress, I thought it might be interesting to try something in English.

Simpson: I also thought your book was fascinating, not just for what you said but for what you chose not to say. For example, when you were chairman of the Federal Reserve, didn?t you get a lot of tail?

Greenspan: I?m a happily married man.

Simpson: (laughing) I?ll take that as a yes! Seriously, though, N.F.L. players get buckets of ass, but being able to cut the lending rate?that must make the ladies horny as hell.

Greenspan: (laughing) As I used to say when I was at the Fed, it is my policy not to comment on rumors.

Simpson: Touch?.

Greenspan: The first draft of my book actually had a lot of steamy sex scenes in it, but my publisher was afraid they wouldn?t stock it at Wal-Mart.

Simpson: Don?t get me started on publishers. Have you seen my book?s cover? They made the ?If ? in the title so small it looks like the title is ?I Did It.? I mean, talk about exploitative. It?s like if Herman Melville?s publisher printed ?Moby? in tiny letters so that people would think the book was called ?Dick.?