Our human nature is exactly the same as it was 500 years ago, let alone five years ago.

I just spend my money on the essentials. Just basically food and shelter.

I will read biographies or autobiographies while I'm writing, but mostly I put books in a to-read queue, like Rachel Cusk's new novel, "Outline."

Garry Shandling is someone I've publicly gone gay for, for jokes. Oh and anyone in the Twilight movies. I don't know any of their names, but all of them. The wolves, the vampires? They're all fantastic.

I love Doctor Who and I remember the first one, which was wonderful in its low-tech quality. I also loved the theme song, which sounded like The Cure to me. Which character would I like to play in Doctor Who? Who's the bad guy? The Dalek? OK, I'll play him.

I don't know how anybody gets better at anything aside from doing it.

I think the real heroic teachers are the ones who work with kids, like my mom and my sister do.