It seems people spend the majority of their lives believing they're dying, with the only consolation being that at one point they get to be right.

No pain is too small if it hurts, but any pain is too big if it's cherished.

Surely: the adverb of a man without an argument.

People never remeber happiness with the care that they lavish on preserving every detail of their suffering.

Everything was usual. That was depression: being stuck, clinging to an out-of-date version of oneself.

I think that some laughter comes from escaped horror, doesn't it?

I'm not trying to uncover the facts of my life but to discover the dramatic truth of the situations I was in.

Well, the attractive thing about the subject of happiness is that it is notoriously difficult to write.

Detachment is what interests me, seeing how people couldn't have been any other way, how they were the product of forces that they had no control over.

You can only give things up once they start to let you down.

The whole Melrose series is an attempt to tell the truth, and is based on the idea that there is some salutary or liberating power in telling the truth.

The only thing I cannot predict is the future

The key relationships in the future will not be between people, but between machines and people.

I always approach comedy roles pretending they aren't funny.

My father was one of ten children.

I have become a housewife and there is no better job.

A man that can cook you a proper meal that is like a weekday meal - which I think cannot be better than in the form of a roast chicken - that's the greatest.

I thought of singing and acting as a living-making. I was able to take care of myself and a few of my friends.

There's just certain things you don't think about to enjoy a film. Bullets in space are one of them.

Being a good human being is very easy: Be a good son, a good husband, a good parent and a good citizen.