I think they have no duty. But we do have the opportunity, not to change the world, but to make people think differently.

Most people, these days, they don’t even believe in reincarnation. They’d say, you only go around once.

My own answer to the contrarian question is that most people think the future of the world will be defined by globalization, but the truth is that technology matters more. Without technological change, if China doubles its energy production over the next two decades, it will also double its air pollution. If every one of India's hundreds of millions of households were to live the way Americans already do — using only today's tools — the result would be environmentally catastrophic. Spreading old ways to create wealth around the world will result in devastation, not riches. In a world of scarce resources, globalization without new technology is unsustainable.

But a running theme has been how many men have said something along the lines of, “Wow, I was so surprised I loved your book, because I’m a man.” These men mean no harm—I don’t take those comments personally—and yet the fact that they were surprised that they loved a book by and about a woman is an indication of the sexism women writers are up against every time they write.

Never take advice from anyone with no investment in the outcome.

I get to airports ridiculously early. It’s an uncontrollable urge.

I would like to write a play which doesn’t disappoint me 20 years later.

I stopped directing movies in the late Eighties because I believed I couldn’t be a playwright and a filmmaker.

I took Nicole out to dinner for the first time on 19 October, 1991. After that, everything changed.

I don't think you should do the serious stuff, you're not cut out for it.