Well, here's the thing with relationships on 'True Blood': Once they happen then you have to throw a monkey-wrench into them, because to have people be happy is not that exciting.

And as I stumbled onto Eastern philosophy and Buddhism, it was the first time I had ever read any sort of philosophy that really made a tremendous amount of sense. What I liked that was missing from my experience of Christianity growing up was a sort of acceptance, a sort of being OK with being imperfect and not focusing on the sin.

You have no idea what I'm talking about, I'm sure.

Happy relationships are boring. We all want them in our own life. But I don't want to watch them on TV.

Racism is ridiculous no matter where it's coming from.

The idea of celibate vampires is ridiculous. To me, vampires are sex. I don't get a vampire story about abstinence. I don't care about high school students. I find them irritating and uninformed.

We live in a time where there's an alienation factor. There's a certain disconnection. We don't have any real sense of community anymore.