The campaign against polygamy, around which a lot of anti-Mormon sentiment was organized, seems horrific to me.

It is easy to keep secrets by being honest in an ironic tone of voice.

Antonin Artaud wrote on one of his drawings, "Never real and always true," and that is how depression feels. You know that it is not real, that you are someone else, and yet you know that it is absolutely true.

I felt like all of the work was training for just one central idea: Accept your child for who he is. I'm not saying that I've done a brilliant job with that. But I've done my best.

I'm a huge believer in science. But I don't think it explains everything.

In these xenophobic times, when politicians are stoking everyone's anxiety about threats from abroad, I would argue that engaging with the rest of the world is not only a luxury, in the way that travel is, but actually a moral responsibility.

I have always believed in trying to be a good person and giving to the world, and treating others in a just, kind, merciful way.