You used to be able to tell a person's nationality by the face. Immigration ended that. Next you discerned nationality via the footwear. Globalization ended that.

He knew a lot about his grandparents - and perhaps he feels he's been endowed with abilities to go into people's heads who are long dead - but, to a certain extent, he's making it up.

People don't save other people. People save themselves.

It was amazing how it worked: the tiniest bit of truth made credible the greatest lies.

Usually my ideas are small.

We knew, finally, that the girls were really women in disguise, that they understood love and even death, and that our job was merely to create the noise that seemed to fascinate them.

I wanted to be an actor. My parents were not too keen on that.