We live a life that is often spent in crowds - parties, festivals and first nights - so it's nice to avoid them.

We are usually undone by our lack of understanding of ourselves.

I think it's always a challenge to adapt something from one medium to another - a novel into a film or a play into a movie or whatever.

I don't think I'm an unkind person, I don't think my books are unkind, and I don't think my readers are unkind.

You never know people, do you? You can work with 'em for twenty years; you don't know 'em at all.

Plenty of friendships are sustainable through dinners and lunches, but will not stand a week away. So be careful with whom you go on holiday.

Sometimes you watch one of your favorite shows from 20 years ago and you think, 'I'm loving this, but golly, it's going at the speed of a snail.'