I admire Bruce Springsteen because he's a heroic person who has lots of integrity and has this incredible body of work that is so vital.

I wanted so much to forget the past, but it wouldn't go away, it hung around like an open wound that refused to scar over, an open window that no amount of muscle could shut.

Mental illness is so much more complicated than any pill that any mortal could invent

But then I never had to worry about a crash landing because I never even took off.

And what I thought, every time I thought about my father, every time his name came up, was quite simply: I WANT TO KILL YOU. I wanted to be more mature, more reasonable, I wanted to have a big, fat, forgiving heart that could contain all this rage and still find room for kind, beneficent love, but I didn't have it in me. I just didn't.

Because trying to see all sides, such an instinct is particularly Jewish.

In life, single women are the most vulnerable adults. In movies, they are given imaginary power.