You could tell 'The Handmaid's Tale' from a male point of view. People have mistakenly felt that the women are oppressed, but power tends to organise itself in a pyramid. I could pick a male narrator from somewhere in that pyramid. It would interesting.

How easy it is, treachery. You just slide into it.

The problem with meditating is I generally go to sleep, and that's because I'm doing it wrong.

I grew up with the biologists. I know how they think.

I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.

The biggest debt is always the government debt; it's always debt that government has run up on your behalf.

Even in the tragedies, Shakespeare always put in parts for the comic actors because his audience was mixed. He puts in people who talk like aristocrats. He puts in idiots and fools. He puts in certain middle-range characters. And when you go to the Globe, you realize how that all works. The people who paid more sat in seats around the edge. Everybody else paid a penny. They put it into a tin box - that's why we call it the "box office." They stood in the pit, but they were very close, so when Hamlet was doing his soliloquy, it was addressed to you, the audience - right there.