Becoming a parent is actually terrifying. A lot of people have that feeling about their dogs. And if you're the kind of person who's going to have that feeling about a dog you're definitely going to have that about a child.

Time is the school in which we learn.

I never had much interest in being a child. As a way of being it seemed flat, failed to engage.

Had I been blessed with even limited access to my own mind there would have been no reason to write.

It's just a deep pleasure to read something you've written yourself - if and when you like it.

Of course, you always think about how it will be read. I always aim for a reading in one sitting.

Something I've always known about the screen is that if it's anything in the world, it's literal. It's so literal that there's a whole lot you can't do because you're stuck with the literalness of the screen. The stage is not literal.