I had a very difficult relationship with my father, which ended up okay, but there were many difficult years.

Acting was always my unscratched itch, when I was in college and even afterwards.

The answer to religion is not no religion, but another way of thinking of it. Another way of being in it.

Memory has its own special kind. It selects, eliminates, alters, exaggerates, minimizes, glorifies, and vilifies also; but in the end it creates its own reality, its heterogeneous but usually coherent version of events; and no sane human being ever trusts someone else's version more than his own.

The rate of change is global now. I think there's a kind of mind that is so ill at ease with that transformation that it reaches out for something permanent. And religious faith offers that, from simplicities, which you are told are eternal and unchanging, and you can hold on to those like a life raft in a metamorphosing world.

The only people who see the whole picture,' he murmured, 'are the ones who step out of the frame.

Freedom to reject is the only freedom.