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

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

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.

The art (as opposed to the technology) of reading requires that you develop a beautiful tolerance for incomprehension. The greatest books are the books that you come to understand more deeply with time, with age and with rereading.

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

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.

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.