Keep your friends close and your enemies dead.

I became an actor because it was my clumsy attempt to become myself.

The silence rings—it is musical & thrills me. A night in which the silence was audible—I hear the unspeakable.

Ask 10 people about their family relationships and at least five of them will report an estrangement.

One of the things, universally, that psychologists found with hijackers in the early '70s was that they all struggled with women.

I had a little teddy bear called Gordon the gopher. I took him to bed with me, he'd come to school with me cos he was my favourite.

I like the fact that there is challenge.

If the family were a boat, it would be a canoe that makes no progress unless everyone paddles.

If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.

Sentiment never was and never can be a guarantee for justice.

Writing should be testimony to the vast flow of life through us.