I felt a little green, because Shakespeare writes the thought process within the text; it was tricky not to think of what to say and then say it, and instead just deliver the lines.

Tobey's a mellow, cool guy. He's just a good guy. I know that's not the answer you want, and I don't mean that as the political thing to say, but he's a nice guy.

I feel like I know where I'm going. And I like where I'm going.

I don't like to be disparaging about my past roles. That's the only taboo that I don't like to cross.

Our culture's adjustment to the epistemology of television is by now all but complete; we have so thoroughly accepted its definitions of truth, knowledge and reality that irrelevance seems to us to be filled with import, and incoherence seems eminently sane. And if some of our institutions seem not to fit the template of the times, why it is they and not the template, that seem to us disordered and strange.

I regret not dancing more, just cutting loose on the dance floor. I still admire those who don't care much about what others think of them.

I often feel like books find us for reasons, and we read them when we need them the most.