I think you find pieces of yourself in every character you portray.

You pick pieces of things you've experienced in life to make it real to yourself.

I'm a pretty private person. I'm not "out there" out there. From living in New York City, I developed a certain awareness that you have to have when you live by yourself.

When you have parents who are recognizable, there's a certain part of you that wants to know that people you meet are able to not get clouded by that.

It was always a funny thing when someone would ask me my name and I would say "Brooklyn." They would always think that I meant that I lived in Brooklyn, and I would have to clarify that.

I was one of the serious studiers. I'm not somebody who just shows up and gets a hundred on a test.

When I was a kid, I always envisioned myself as performing, as being in that business. It was all that I knew, so it's kind of like I'm just following in the family tradition.

To me, my parents are my mom and dad, and we were able as kids to do a lot of cool things. Just being part of that family definitely brought out and cultivated the creative arts in us.

We live in a melting pot. More and more, people are some kind of mixture. Even if you're Caucasian, you're a mixture of something.

A plan concerns your life and your calling

I'm so out of shape I take steroids just to watch sports.

Hasn’t everyone taken a nervous breakdown at some point? Maybe I suffered a nervous breakthrough. I don’t know what tothink. It echoes inside your skull.

I'd spent so many years doing things I didn't really want to do for people I didn't really like.

There is no such thing as a little garlic.

The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.

A day of minor profit or prophet led to a night of drunkenness.

I love being in therapy. It's just constantly fulfilling for me.

It's very unlikely that a writer is going to make a living by writing. So then the question is: how do you balance work, life, and writing? If you find out, please tell me.

We need to be moral archaeologists to pull out how we understand the world