What I really like is the marriage of both [writing and acting] - for instance, with Postcards. I don't actually act in it, but I worked on it with Mike [Nichols] as I went along, creating the character, so it was a bit like acting for me.

I am not going to put my daughter under any sort of stresses.

I shot through my twenties like a luminous thread through a dark needle, blazing toward my destination: Nowhere.

I guess, as they say, I never acquired a taste for [caviar].

Acting engenders and harbours qualities that are best left way behind in adolesence.

I did masses of opiates religiously.

I do believe you're only as sick as your secrets.