My definition of palatable might be slightly different from yours.

Talent is an accident of genes - and a responsibility.

My parents certainly didn't have anything to do with the theater. I'm some kind of accident.

There's a voice inside you that tells you what you should do.

I have every sympathy for writers. It's a mystery to me what they do. I can edit. I can cross out and say, 'I'm not saying that' or, 'How about we move this to here? Wouldn't that make that bit of the story better?' But where any of it comes from is beyond me. I will never write a play or a novel.

If you judge the character, you cant play it.

I have this feeling that if I could sort out what's on my dining room table, everything would fall into place.