The toughest workout can never match the pain of being out of work.

I began drinking alcohol at the age of thirteen and gave it up in my fifty sixth year; it was like going straight from puberty to a mid-life crisis.

Dancing can be addictive if you like it.

I am for poetry that is admired by peasant and aristocrat alike.

A widely held, but rarely articulated, belief in our society is that the ideal self is bold, alpha, gregarious. Introversion is viewed somewhere between disappointment and pathology.

Getting older is a lot of fun. Right up there with chewing glass or putting your hand in a blender.

I can tell when an actor's forcing tears, and it's tricky because you then have to film it and edit in a certain way to skirt around the issue.

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

There are things about which I don't even talk to myself.

If he'd been making shell-cases during the war it might have been better for music.

I felt puny and absurd, a ludicrous midget. Easy enough to talk of soul and spirit and existential worth, but not when you're three feet tall.

I think the one thing of me that they really wanted to capitalize on is my dorkiness