As somebody once said, we're not punished for our sins, we're punished by them.

We are all the foolishness and all the crimes we did. We're also all the kindnesses we did. I hate to think of life as if we understood time. We don't understand time.

My life is every moment of my life. It is not a culmination of the past.

I've always believed in survival.

My father I liked, but it was only after his death that I got to know him by writing the play.

Arnold Bennett was a writer I admired. He was actually taking notes at his father's deathbed.

I feel like the writer observing the grief, but it is difficult to be detached from it.