And honestly, given the choice of facing my mother or a vampire, I think I'd always choose the latter.

I was trying to heal wounds all the time, whether it meant having affairs or having attitude. I didn't want to show how sad I was.

We can't really know ourselves because we have not created ourselves. But we can know computers, we can know cars, because anything that we made, we can understand.

Who are we to wish for Paradise? It will be enough if Allah spares us his wrath.

My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, called The Claremont Folk Music Center.

Even the darkest of villans-can have a hero's heart.

For me, work is so satisfying and it's giving me so much, it's nurturing me so much, that I think it sort of makes up for the sleep depravation.

Michael: There's nothing here to fear. Lucifer: Well, there's always the truth.

To name the world in your own terms, to tell your own story, is an act of authority and power. When you write, you are saying, in effect, 'I have a voice. I have a story. This is what I have to say.'

It was like drowning, only from the inside out.

That's one of the things of being an actor. You have to push any knowledge of any future, at all, out of your mind. You never know what's going to happen where.