The book is an experience that allows you to witness your feelings without having to surrender to them, to succumb to them, or to be battered by them. It gives you access to a deep knowledge of how you would respond to things you would never, thank goodness, have been required to experience.

A beautiful word in the middle of a sentence can sometimes reduce me to tears in an interview, and when I'm reading, too. I've sometimes wondered whether I'm at the point of tears all the time because I use my eyes so much that they're strained and on the verge of tears anyway.

She taught you how to be a person who refuses anything but the meaningful.

I'm often a crier and many things make me cry. I come from a crying family - my mother cries, my grandma used to cry. It was never shameful to cry. My father never told me men don't cry.

People tell me I have the best job in the world, which is true, but I also work with some of the best people in the world.

If I want to have a conversation, I can't have a list of questions, because the second question on the list is going to interrupt the conversation.

I like to think that at best the interview becomes something like the unaccountable experience of talking to oneself in a mirror.