It's a gift. Never lend a book.

You never know exactly what pop cultural moment a show is going to step into.

After you get a season under your belt, you learn a lot of lessons. It's a much bigger challenge, logistically, in terms of production.

Romance classically has tragic underpinnings to it.

I like interacting with fans and I like hearing what they say, but you have to take it all with a grain of salt.

The ultimate measure of a person is not her mistakes or accomplishments, but what she does with them.

Stable markets, unstable world. Efficiency. Everybody hears about it. It's enough to make you want to be pro-inefficiency and pro-corruption.

I'm trying to fight typecasting as hard as I can, while I have time.

I think that we have to look at ISIS as the leading threat of an international terror network. It cannot be contained, it must be defeated.

Death is not the end. Death is an ocean on all sides of our lives. Deep and dark and cold, and anything but empty.

I think I had about a month off when I broke my rib in Australia, which was magnificent.

You will have the highest of highs and the lowest of lows, just remember to always handle yourself with grace and dignity.

I'm really just expressing myself in every different stage of my life.

Pursuit of the approximate can conclude. Not so pursuit of the absolute.

'Educational' refers to the process, not the object. Although, come to think of it, some of my teachers could easily have been replaced by a cheeseburger.