The loneliness of another can be shocking when it lays itself bare without warning.

Whatever she saw beyond the camera lens, beyond the photographer, beyond anything in the known world probably - wasn't fit to be seen.

I sort of play golf because a lot of my friends are into it, but I'm awful - my handicap is about six or seven thousand.

The ornament of beauty, Shakespeare wrote, is suspect. And he was right. But beauty itself, unadorned and unaffected, is sacred, I think, worthy of our awe and our loyalty.

I have a lot of rage about things that didn't happen to me, tied up with watching an immigrant, working-class father struggle to make his way through the world - and seeing how society was modeled to keep him in his place.

I love television. I think we're in a renaissance of epic proportion in television now.

I was blessed to grow up in really interesting times and to go back to a home where I was very safe.