And so I was very grateful that I didn't do the British stiff upper lip, but I went straight to a therapist. And she was wonderful and helpful, and I went for about two years.

And I would urge all women to have that regular mammogram.

I became the butterfly. I got out of the cocoon, and I flew.

As an actor, particularly because I'm - I would call myself a character actor. I change my look, my physical appearance and my body, my hair color, my whatever all the time for a role.

God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

But I'm looking at life, and I'm putting nothing off.

There were times after my marriage ended where, you know, I really felt like I was at the bottom of a mountain, there was a great big, fog up there, and I'm never going to cross to the other side.

And yet, I suppose you mourn the loss or the death of what you thought your life was, even if you find your life is better after. You mourn the future that you thought you'd planned.

Smart girls know how to play tennis, piano, and dumb.

They have - they do still hit me occasionally, and it's an overwhelming grief for what - even though my life is so good now, even including going through treatment for cancer, my life is incredible.

I'm also doing constant book readings, movies. You name it, I'm doing it.

It's impossible to be unhappy while wearing a poncho!

And can a man his own quietus make with a bare bodkin?

Poverty has strange bedfellows.

I think much sociopolitical art delivers truisms that are quite flat.

My aim was to make money for the bank. You lose track of the amounts involved when you are engaged in this kind of work.

The novel is the affliction for which only the novel is the cure.

After all who doesn't wish to make a spectacle of their loneliness

You don't write. You get out of the way.

What is essential does not die but clarifies.

Race is the least reliable information you can have about someone. It's real information, but it tells you next to nothing.