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

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

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

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

I just think I'm fairly aggressive.

I learned not to trust people; I learned not to believe what they say but to watch what they do; I learned to suspect that anyone and everyone is capable of 'living a lie'. I came to believe that other people - even when you think you know them well - are ultimately unknowable.

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).