I love spoilers, and I read spoilers all the time. I make people tell me the endings of movies before I go to see them, and yet I refuse to give spoilers. It's kind of unfair, but that's how I roll.

When something tragic has happened, you can try to move on and put something tragic behind you, but it rarely works. It's in you when something like that happens. It's physically a part of your life.

The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.

I want people to be excited about cooling towers and megasheds they're as much part of our history as the rural barn.

It is easy to flatter; it is harder to praise.

Everything we run away from has power over us;everything we go through,we conquer.

We may not all live holy lives, but we live in a world alive with holy moments.

When you're doing a television series, unless you really pay attention to your life, it doesn't leave very much time for anything else.

I could ask the Phillies to keep me on to add to my statistics, but my love for the game won't let me do that.

The genius of culture is to create an ontological system so compelling that what is inside and outside of a person are viewed as of a piece, no seams and patches noticeable.

In 1923 there were no government benefits for immigrants except one: Freedom!

I like to write early in the morning, like, 5 a.m. If I'm really on my game, I don't have any coffee or stimulants. I'm kind of in a dream state.