I am drawn to Americana, and I am drawn to gothic stories, and I love American gothic stories.

I grew up reading comic books. Super hero comic books, Archie comic books, horror comic books, you name it.

One of the best things that happened for me as a playwright is becoming a comic-book writer.

The most transgressive, the most taboo, the darkest act that could happen is a parent killing their own child.

And maybe that was love. Being so vulnerable and allowing someone else in so far they could hurt you, but they also give you everything.

In view of this and other things, I demand forgiveness for being so obviously impressed with my own parents.

There is a definite process by which one made people into friends and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.

The artist's duty to himself is a combination of immense responsibility and immense irresponsibility. I think those two interlock.

Youth calls to age across the tired years: 'What have you found,' he cries, 'what have you sought?" 'What have you found,' age answers through his tears, 'What have you sought.

I was raised with a huge Armenian influence, always hearing stories of Armenia, celebrating Armenian holidays.

A person might be able to play without being creative, but he sure can't be creative without playing.

Some people don't have a family to fall back on, like I have, and that's when something greater than even that comes in, and that's faith and that's what I have for me, that's what keeps me strong.

I don't define myself as an actor at all. Nor is that my greatest passion in life by any stretch of the imagination.

ME: You 're a sick girl. ERIN: Guilty as charged. :)