And I think a lot of us have fantasies of going back to where we're from, or when we do go back we're so nostalgic about it.

In real life, I don't fall in love with the guy who wines and dines me, I fall in love with the flaws and the humanity.

I don't want to put a pause on the rest of my life; I'm really enjoying getting older and the wisdom that comes from that.

I like exploring both the light parts and the dark parts of a single person. And all of those shades tend to come out most acutely in stories about families.

I kind of moved out of the town I grew up in as quick as I could. I left right after high school.

I'm always studying something or trying to learn something, keep myself creatively occupied, because I think that energy can get kind of destructive if it doesn't have somewhere to go.

We have our whole lives to try and get a glimpse of what that could be, in our own life. It's so exciting.

I read something about, "Why do actresses get plastic surgery," we like to look at pretty people, but I don't. I like to look at all faces, young, old.

Actors are always weird about acting with their spouse or their boyfriend or girlfriend, but more because they think audiences will find it boring.

For me, there are a lot of things you can imagine as an actor, and then there are things that you know in your bones and in your cells once they happen to you.

I feel lucky to be an actor because you always learn something from each part you play.

It's always been this way, I wanted to tell him. We bear the unbearable. We endure the unendurable. We do what must be done until we ourselves are undone.

The narrower we define autism, and the more strictly we control for particular behaviors, the more likely we are to find what I think are the subgroups of autism.

It was a clear, starry night, dead calm. Whenever I see a sky like that, I wish I could write music

My work at MIT had focused on what we could build in space once we had inexpensive space transportation and industrial facilities in orbit. And this led to various sorts of work in space development.

What is past is past. never go back. Not for excuses. Not for justification, not for happiness. You are what you are, the world is what it is.

Whatever notoriety Fall Out Boy used to have prevents me from having the ability to start over from the bottom again.

It's better to build boys than mend men.

Where silence is not allowed, what then is permissible?

The further the departure from direct and constant control by the citizens, the less has the government of the ingredient of republicanism.

For me, a poem is an opportunity to kind of interrogate myself a little bit.