A diverse and lively collection, the highest art of the interview.

Acting is the loneliest profession I know.

Stories come to us as wraiths requiring precise embodiments.

All actors are whores. They want only one thing: to seduce you.

Honorary degrees and lifetime achievement awards are very encouraging. I know that it might sound strange that a writer who has published many books still needs encouragement, but this is true.

The denial of language is a suicidal one and we pay for it with our own lives.

It's a taboo subject. How the dead are betrayed by the living. We who are living--we who have survived--understand that our guilt is what links us to the dead. At all times we can hear them calling to us, a growing incredulity in their voices, You will not forget me -- will you? How can you forget me? I have no one but you.