I went through life like an idiot for a great deal of the time, saying there's nothing I would change. That was a very arrogant thing to say. There's a lot I would change. There are people I would have steered clear of.

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

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

I don't think anyone is the perfect one to play me.

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

My mother was passionate. She was stubborn, the dominant one in the family. She dominated my father.

I came down to the living room one day and my wife was standing in the living room. It wasn't an illusion. I saw her out of the corner of my eye. The moment I saw her, she vanished.