I can't wish I weren't something that I am.

I care what people who know me think of me.

I'm more like my father, personality-wise. But my mom and I get alone really well, obviously, because my mom and my dad get along so well.

I'm aware that not all kids can pick up and fly to Panama. I'm very lucky.

I think I've become more like my mom just because of what we're both interested in, children and teaching and writing.

I hope that I serve by being a teacher.

Not Shakespeare. In college I took a Shakespeare class because I was an English major, and they had a Summer program called Shakespeare at Winedale, which is out in the German Hill country in Texas , where you go out and live for two months and then you perform three plays at the end of that time.