The best interviews like the best biographies should sing the strangeness and variety of the human race.

I just think I'm fairly aggressive.

I have freedom. But freedom means total selfishness. It means nobody cares much what you do.

What did I get from Simon? An education - the thing my parents always wanted me to have.

I don't want to give a cool appraisal of Jeremy Irons. I just want to boil him in oil.

But perhaps this is what goes wrong with long marriages--you state your opinions, your likes and dislikes, at the beginning and then forget to mention when they change" (135).

The best interviews like the best biographies should sing the strangeness and variety of the human race.