I really enjoy doing theater, but doing theater in Seattle is like dropping a brick in a bottomless well. It's gratifying, but it's almost like doing radio. It's ephemeral.

Every question is a hypothetical question for everyone but the person who asks it.

Oftentimes, when people write me 4,000-word letters, I write them back and tell them if their problem's that complicated, they probably need a lawyer or a cop, and not me.

You know, my problem is I cant say no to people, especially people who want to write me checks to do things.

The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity.

School is very conformist, and one of the very first conforming that goes on in preschool and kindergarten is gender.

Books are magic: you never know where they're going to end up.