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.

Tragedy is one of the larger prices we pay for being alive. No one ever sidesteps tragedy. It is always there, shadowing us.

Success is a very fragile veneer. I get wary of people who embrace celebrity. It ruins people.

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.

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 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 want to fix things. Just as we all believe that so much in life can be rectified. Mend fences, build bridges, reach out, engage in mutual healing.