Art is a way of freezing time, or extending time. ... It's another way to bridge the gaps between us.

What I really value about being a writer is that I can go to rehearsal when I want to, and then, when I need to be at home writing or with my kids, I go home.

I don't read a word that's written about me. I don't read my own interviews. I don't read reviews. I think it would drive me insane.

This is what it is to love an artist: The moon is always rising above your house. The houses of your neighbors look dull and lacking in moonlight. But he is always going away from you. Inside his head there is always something more beautiful.

We all exist in relation to the world, our partners, the human race.

I see, in women friends, a really dangerous phenomenon where it seems they reach a certain age and become invisible.

I found that life intruding on writing was, in fact, life. And that, tempting as it may be for a writer who is a parent, one must not think of life as an intrusion. At the end of the day, writing has very little to do with writing, and much to do with life. And life, by definition, is not an intrusion.