If I could do one thing over I'd have been nicer to my parents.

I lived in a town of 400 until I was like nine or ten. My dad coached all the sports - he was a gym teacher and health teacher for grades K-12

I wanted to be a meteorologist. I wanted to be a marine biologist

It’s not witch-crafty or anything! I suggest it to all moms!

Why not show off if you've got something to show?

It's something I was very hesitant about, but we're the only mammals who don't ingest our own placentas. It's not witchcrafty or anything! I suggest it to all moms!

I have that thing in my stomach where I just need to keep striving for things. In my mind, I want the fairy tale

I've gotten to do a lot of weird stuff.

I prefer to remain mysterious and have people MAKE their own judgment calls about me than to always have to EXPLAIN who I am and what I’m about.

I went to a party at the Playboy Mansion once. For a Halloween Party. And everyone wasn't in costume, or if they were they were little bunnies or something, and I went as Michael Jackson.

Crows follow me wherever I go.

Oh no, real life is escape. The great terrors, the horrors--we hope--of your life come from reading fiction.

Personal truth differs from one person to the next, so how can truth itself be a constant? At least we can listen to each other in truth.

Grief for a dead Wife, and a troublesome Guest, Continues to the threshold, and there is at rest; But I mean such wives as are none of the best

Skills that are monopolizable are anathema to capital.

My mind says one thing, but my body says another. Thanks a lot, Indian food and beer.

True solitude is a din of birdsong, seething leaves, whirling colors, or a clamor of tracks in the snow.

Brazil was, is, and will be in fashion.

The more I know about America, the better I'll be at performing American characters and American stories.