I did plays in grade school.

I don't need to know how they make Coca-Cola. I think it tastes just fine not knowing what the ingredients are. I think there are some things that should be kept secret.

But yeah, I played bass guitar in high school and in college and then I actually fractured my thumb, so my bass career went bye-bye.

I didn't want to come up with some generic Johnny Bravo type name. I'm not that cool, so I might as well stick with my birth name.

I'm the quiet bass player.

I think Robitussin is way underrated.

Some people receive medication in order to properly deliver films.

I'm always constantly trying to find stuff that's different. It's a way to keep me on my toes and keep me interested and keep me excited about work.

I've always really been a fan of scenes in which you're able to be as natural as you want.

You learn stuff from your kids, every day.

I'm trying to be really coy, and I'm not sure if I'm doing a good job.

There is nobody else on earth like you and me. Let us be who we are meant to be.

But this time is ours, and we cannot live hating ourselves

✵ When I first met you there was a garden growing from a black hole in my mind. ✵

I'm so depressed. Christmas is the worst of all. Holidays are terrible, worse than Sundays. I get melancholia.

I wanted to create an environment in which more than just personal essays could be represented, and in which stranger approaches to making essays could be celebrated.

It is better to lose than never to have had.

To know a people's character, we must see it at its homes, and look chiefly to the humbler abodes where that portion of the people dwells which makes the broad basis of the national prosperity.

Even disasters -- there are always disasters when you travel -- can be turned into adventures.

Unhappy, but not unhappy enough.

I've always leaned toward a feminine, funky style, even in business settings. I used to paint my nails blue in 1993, before it was mainstream.