In the summer of 2009, I was at the Shakespeare lab at the public theater in New York.

I would not call myself Catholic anymore, but I went to 16 years of Catholic school: grade school, high school and college.

One of the great things about having been on Lost is people coming up and feeling so enthusiastic about the show and saying, "Oh it provided us so much entertainment," or "It inspired conversations."

I was an English major, so I love discussing possibilities and alternate theories.

I love sci-fi, especially when it thrives on a thought-provoking story, rather than explosions.

I love classical music and often listen to symphonies or opera in the morning.

I can be a bit of a science geek. I tend more towards reading about brain science, neuroscience.

I guess every actor has certain emotions they can access easier than others.

If you think about filmmaking as an entire spectrum, starting with the writer and ending with maybe the marketing department, the actor's contribution is a rather slender band.

I don't think that necessarily I was encouraged by the nuns and the priest to consider alternate possibilities to the universe.

I went to Notre Dame. I don't know if that has any relevance, but maybe we all had a little too much philosophy and theology.

... the Kindle is a "roach motel" device: its license terms and DRM ensure that books can check in, but they can't check out.

Humor is imperative, more important than food. You have a choice when someone dies. You can lie down or get back into life. Do something for someone else.

Democracy is acceptable to neo-liberals only in so far as it does not contradict the free market.

You always have to remember to take care of yourself first and foremost, because when you stop taking care of yourself you get out of balance and you really forget how to take care of others.

The world is a better place because Saddam Hussein does not in Iraq.

When I do have time to work on music, I'm kind of selfish, and would rather work on my own stuff than someone else's.

No one is infallible, and no one can claim a monopoly on truth or virtue. It would be contradictory for skepticism to seek to translate itself into a new faith.

Everybody has his own great ideas about what my art should be. But I can do whatever I like and there aren't many constraints to the way I work, whether I'm using a brush with ink or paint.

I believe that there is an explanation for everything, so, yes, I believe in miracles.

When you get to see the world, it changes you. You realise that there are all kinds of people out there.