It's ridiculous. My life's been a series of happy accidents.

That honeymoon phase is so much fun in real life, when you meet and discover somebody new and fall in love and chase them. The pursuit. And that climactic final moment of ultimate togetherness.

Ninety percent of the time, I'm wearing imaginary people's clothing. I don't feel a huge pressure to go out and like, hit the town, hit the boutiques.

I'm certainly not a trained singer. The only place I could probably carry a tune is my shower.

I'm a young actor and I haven't learned everything there is about acting.

I think that's part of the fun of being an actor - you get to not be normal all of the time.

I rarely accept things on blind faith, especially the orthodoxy of any given practice, or any given practicum. I'm like, "Oh come on. Is this the way to do things?"

Yes, I want kids. I don't know that I'll ever be ready. But, I'll certainly want them. I'll have them regardless of whether I am ready, I think. I just don't have a timeframe on it yet.

Oftentimes, when people don't respond to text messages or emails, I just start writing long, long in-depth essays and diatribes where characters start to appear and narrative threads begin.

I like the idea of building this wandering, epic narrative in a form that people don't expect epic narratives to appear.

To love someone is to desire and work toward their becoming the best version of themselves. The one person in all the universe who can do this perfectly for you is God.

I have stopped painting. I stand in front of the easel, brush in hand, but my mind is blank. It is as if I have been struck by a strange kind of blindness.

purpose of life give away to vision, vision creates dream, and dreams become reality.

I used to work the graveyard shift.

To get enough to eat was regarded as an achievement. To get drunk was a victory.

No romantic novel ever written in America, by man or woman, is one half so beautiful as My Ántonia.

I was reminded of another very special word when I was driving into Ann Arbor this morning, and that word is homecoming. Our family's had three homecomings to Ann Arbor, Michigan, in my lifetime.

I think you just have to appreciate who you are and hopefully they can see what a superhero is about.

To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.

We need better government, no doubt about it. But we also need better minds, better friendships, better marriages, better communities.