This is unbearable how I talk.

Well, I'm not a critic, I'm just a worker. So, I'm always grateful for anything the critics say - good or bad.

In my prayers every day, which are a combination of Hebrew prayers and Shakespeare and Sondheim lyrics and things people have said to me that I've written down and shoved in my pocket, I also say the name of every person I've ever known who's passed on.

I wanted to go to a liberal arts college, I wanted to have that experience.

I believe there's a common ground in what all gifted writers write. It has to do with their wish to turn darkness into light.

Everything I am came from my parents. I don't take that much credit for who I am and what I am.

My inner motivation is to make the world a better place; the bad guy and the good guy think the same thing.