I've played a murderer, so certainly I think I can play a Republican.

The difference between listening and pretending to listen, I discovered, is enormous. One is fluid, the other is rigid. One is alive, the other is stuffed. Eventually, I found a radical way of thinking about listening. Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you. When I’m willing to let them change me, something happens between us that’s more interesting than a pair of dueling monologues.

My relationship with science is as someone who's curious and hungry to know, hungry to understand. So all I have to offer is my ignorance and my curiosity, which is a good combination, as long as they come together.

Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.

And I think belief is one of those things that comes to people in their own way. And just because I believe in something doesn't mean I think that you should.

Being mystified is a good beginning, because you won't do what you've done before.

Loneliness is everything it's cracked up to be.