one forgives parents as naturally as one emancipates oneself from them - usually shortly afterward.

I think we're much more eager to know about our parents than we were in the seventies.

Friendship is by its very nature freer of deceit than any other relationship we can know because it is the bond least affected by striving for power, physical pleasure, or material profit, most liberated from any oath of duty or of constancy. With Eros the body stands naked, in friendship our spirit is denuded.

I think it's one of the reasons I wrote my book later in life. My parents didn't have these extreme alternations of conduct. They were very sweet to me.

Lovers, children, heroes, none of them do we fantasize as extravagantly as we fantasize our parents.

one forgives parents as naturally as one emancipates oneself from them - usually shortly afterward.

Like most writers I know, I love being on stage. I’ve sublimated the dramatic urge by teaching and by making people laugh.