It's very different to have this kid that I'm truly responsible for.

I've gotten to do a lot of stuff, traveled, worked hard at my career.

But you were a goody-goody, you said.' 'Even goody-goodies think about such things. In fact, I would say that's what defines us. We're always thinking about the things we don't dare do, figuring out where the lines are drawn, so we can go right up to the edge of things, then plead innocence on the ground of a technicality.

Whatever you want, at any moment, someone else is getting it. Whatever you have, someone else is longing for.

My family is really, really Southern - I had two uncle Bubbas, and grandparents that we called Big Mama and Big Daddy.

I think Baltimore suffers from nostalgia and it keeps us from being honest in talking about what really happened here. A place doesn't have to be perfect to be beloved, and I love this city and I love it better for seeing its flaws.

There are, of course, an infinite number of places where one is not, yet only one place where one actually is.