I wish we had a dog in the show so that I could get to be a dog for a day.

I don't really recognise success. I don't see myself as on an upwardly mobile trajectory. I see myself as on the edge of a cliff about to fall off.

The reason it's hard for me to tweet is I don't want to pronounce anything, and Twitter is for pronouncing.

Something has happened where you almost never grow up in America. Maybe it's the greater wealth.

I've always been inspired by Don Quixote as a role model of sorts, of the power of books to sort of make you insane in maybe a beautiful way.

I don't laugh that much, but I do like humorous books, and I like to entertain readers that way.

I certainly want to portray the importance of friendship. I had noticed in movies and TV shows that friends often treated one another terribly, and my friends, the few I have, are never cruel to me or unkind, so I wanted to convey that.