I was good at math, math was my thing - but I was not nearly good enough to be an astrophysicist. I was way outta my league. I realized this very quickly.

Yeah, I spent my teen years in West Virginia, and when I was a kid, in Louisiana. I definitely have that exposure to two different sorts of rural: the South and Appalachia.

In high school, I played in a Rush cover band.

One of the most important things is just to be kind to other people. That is absolutely really important to us, and important to me. That's something that you need to help your kids with, for sure.

I'm horrible at remembering names, embarrassingly bad.

Obviously, guns are a way to protect yourself.

Peter Dinklage is one of my oldest friends from New York!

When I was in high school, I was really into string theory and superstring theory and read 'Scientific American.' It's fascinating.

Being a father is just wonderful.

I'm used to getting reviews. I try not to read much because you'll always focus on the bad ones and not remember the good ones, so it can be a negative thing for a performer.

I used to work as a proofreader at Merrill Lynch.

One loves ultimately one's desires, not the thing desired.

There is a fine line between free speech and hate speech. Free speech encourages debate whereas hate speech incites violence.

...absolute intolerance also provides long growth.

A simple democracy is the devil's own government.

Guilt is the teacher, love is the lesson.

Sometimes I think I want to get 'hair and make up' every day, but that's just not possible.

I can't even remember how many times I tried to kill myself

But then, that's the beauty of writing stories-each one is an exploratory journey in search of a reason and a shape. And when you find that reason and that shape, there's no feeling like it.

I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice.

Even a two-car parade gets fouled up if you don't decide ahead of time who's going to lead.