I was asked to act when I couldn’t act. I was asked to sing ’Funny Face’ when I couldn’t sing, and dance with Fred Astaire when I couldn’t dance - and do all kinds of things I wasn’t prepared for. Then I tried like mad to cope with it.

Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tips of my words.

Psychology should focus on how the mind functions to solve practical problems, not just its abstract structure.