I'm so interested in the fact that we really don't know anybody. We think we know the people close to us, but we don't, we really don't.

If you get divorced in New York, you go into therapy and will talk to anybody you meet on the sidewalk about it.

I've always been tremendously interested in criminal law. It goes to a deep interest I have in prisons and the criminal element, and what we do as a society with it. I've always been touched by the idea of criminality.

But after a certain point in a marriage, you stopped having a certain kind of fight, Olive thought, because when the years behind you were more than the years in front of you, things were different.

I love theater. I love sitting in an audience and having the actors right there, playing out what it means to be a human being.

The facts didn't matter. Their stories mattered, and each of their stories belonged to each of them alone.

People like to think the younger generation's job is to steer the world to hell. But it's never true, is it? They're hopeful and good - and that's how it should be.