The East Coast, and certainly Boston, has a provincial quality to it that makes it harder to bust out and move up. Try to be too different and they'll pull you down.

Every teenager feels a wanting, a desire for something more, to be heard, to be seen.

One of the main pitfalls of any theoretically "niche" show is that you spend too much time on the "niche" and not enough time on the "show."

Any great character is the combination of a brilliant actor and the right writing.

A few years ago I started an online flirtation with a high school flame, Andy. Things got weird and I called it off and two months later...Versace was dead...dead.

I'm fat because I'm greedy, and if my mind is fat it's because I'm curious.

A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.

Never make it perfect.

The Church is designed to nourish the imperfect, the struggling, and the exhausted.

Mastery of life is not a question of control, but of finding a balance between human and being...Human is form. Being is formless. Human and Being are not separate but interwoven.

There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.

In New York City, one suicide in ten is attributed to a lack of storage space.

You sense that he's dangerous but don't now why - and wonder if it's because he makes you feel safer than you've ever felt.

I've done everything I wanted to do, even if I have had to pay a very high price - which has been the case most of the time.

My mom was an actress in the local Seattle theater doing experimental plays.