I get tired of myself pretty fast.

And I asked my mother 'can I touch the lady in the water? And she said yes I could, but I had to touch Mommy first. And then I asked, 'Mom, can I date the lady in the water?' and she said smiling 'sure, but you gotta date me first.' And yesterday I said 'Mom, may I marry the lady in the water?' and she said o.k., but you'll have to marry me first.

I definitely have a tendency to only see the blemishes of things, and see lots of things about my acting that I don't like.

I've got to be the geekiest guy in the world in a lot of ways. I'm like a zeta male.

Come on, man.... Hemingway, Sexton, Plath, Woolf. You can't kill yourself before you're even published.

My definition of likeable may be different from other people's. That's not traditional likeable. Sympathy is a different thing [to define it].

Academia is a rarified culture, especially an Ivy League academic background.