I'm a Buddhist, so one of my biggest beliefs is, 'Everything changes, don't take it personally.'

Life is too mysterious to try to map it out. I've certainly lived long enough to know it will take you places you never thought it would take you - and some of those places are kind of wonderful.

There is a fetishization of victimization in our culture. And I just am not interested in victimhood.

When I go home, the last thing I want to do is read about the popular lore of vampires.

I really love storytelling, and I love the stories as they reveal themselves. It's an incredibly nourishing process; it's probably the closest I come to having a religion.

Most of us live in artificial environments and then we go to work in artificial environments and the world becomes something that you see through a window.

I'm a huge freak, and always have been. I spent the first part of my life trying really desperately not to be one, and it was just a waste of time.