We all talk about how much we hate lies. Yet we prefer, so often, to be lied to....because it allows us to dodge all those painful truths we'd rather not hear.

We all talk about how much we hate lies. Yet we prefer, so often, to be lied to....because it allows us to dodge all those painful truths we'd rather not hear.

All our stories are simultaneously unique and desperately similar, aren't they?

The only time you truly become an adult is when you finally forgive your parents for being just as flawed as everyone else.

If there is an abiding theme in 'The Pursuit of Happiness,' it is the idea that you come into the world already shaped by other people's past histories.

We can rarely tell others what we really think about them--not just because it would so wound them, but also because it would so wound ourselves.

The decision to write full time was made when I was twenty-eight years old and had just had two small plays accepted for BBC Radio.