The ideal art, the noblest of art: working with the complexities of life, refusing to simplify, to "overcome" doubt.

Food doesn't exist, but can only be invented. And reinvented.

Boxing is about being hit rather more than it is about hitting, just as it is about feeling pain, if not devastating psychological paralysis, more than it is about winning.

The greatest realities are physical and economic, all the subtleties of life come afterward.

What does it mean to be born? After we die, will it be the same thing as it was before we were born? Or a different kind of nothingness? Because there might be knowledge then. Memory.

I've always been interested in writing about people, including young children who are not able to speak for themselves. As in my novel 'Black Water,' I provide a voice for someone who has died and can't speak for herself.

Acting is the loneliest profession I know.