I've never not appeared in front of a live audience for any longer period than a month or two.

I slept for four days when I turned 40.

I love to evoke the bones and meat and thoughts of characters.

I want to discover a truth for myself that is really true. Whether it's a piece of scientific knowledge, or a philosophical truth.

I'm always open to the possibility that somebody's got a better idea than I have. It happens with some frequency.

This is my saddest story: In grade school, they would have us open our Valentine's cards and read them out loud. I always sent cards to myself because nobody else did.

Montreal is a very cosmopolitan, sophisticated, erudite, educated, glorious city today. But it wasn't quite that way when I was growing up there. There was a lot of anti-Semitism. And I had to deal with that in an area of the city that had very few Jews.