I know why we try to keep the dead alive: we try to keep them alive in order to keep them with us.

I did consider marriage and motherhood extreme and doomed commitments. Not out of any experience of them as such, but it was simply the way I looked at things.

Sometimes an actor performs a character, but sometimes an actor just performs. With writing, I don't think it's performing a character, really, if the character you're performing is yourself. I don't see that as playing a role. It's just appearing in public.

I was relying on a kind of natural transition - the transitions made by someone who is slightly deranged.

I don't have a very clear idea of who the characters are until they start talking.

We tell ourselves stories in order to live.

What makes Iago evil? Some people ask. I never ask.