I don't read anything about myself. As a child, there was something in me that was just instinctive. I want to be clear in my spirit, and I don't want to be blocked by things that get inside of you and kill you.

When I'm traveling to promote my book, I feel like an artful impostor. What I really am is when I'm in my (painter's) studio and when I'm writing. With actors, it's the same thing. They're kind of artful impostors in public. When you get to know them, they're different people.

Even death is wonderful because, as Woody Allen says, we're not going to know when it happens.

I've had many, many loves. I always feel that something wonderful is going to happen. And it always does.

I don't like cold people at all. It makes me feel really insecure.

I have a tremendous appetite for life; the phone rings and your whole life could change.

A work of fiction is conceived very much the same way as a dream occurs in the mind of a sleeper.