The work is where I tend to feel pressure - not so much in the reaction to it.

Often, what allows someone to behave heroically in dire circumstances is unpalatable in day-to-day life.

The Atlantic really gave me my writing career - even just the conviction to be a writer.

Killing characters on television has become an easy short cut to cathartic emotion.

The work is where I tend to feel pressure - not so much in the reaction to it.

I find the constraints of drama actually freeing: It brings everything down to character and action.

I was raised in a heavily Catholic family. Early and consistent encounters with mysticism.