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I guess I feel so tortured most of the time, when I see someone else feeling tortured, I get a little perverse glee out of it.

Everyone is tortured. Do you know anyone who isn't?

People sometimes seem surprised because often, you know, you know, there's a lot of tortured characters in the stuff I write.

I think there are ways to get so caught up in your career and being so heavy and dramatic, and everyone wants to be a tortured genius.

I think I'm a tough person, but for sure, I would talk under torture.

I don't know why, but I respond well to tortured characters.

I am tortured when I am away from my family, from my children. I am horribly guilt-ridden.

You're not a nutcase if you want to go see a psychiatrist.

Just because I'm talking about something that might have been a sad or painful situation doesn't mean that I'm sad or tortured 24 hours a day any more than anybody else is.

My egotistical concern was less that I would fail to relate to my classmates than that they would know nothing of my uniquely tortured life's course and, thus, me.