I think that when somebody tells you something of value, a lot of the time there's this thing that happens, and I don't know if you find it, where they go exactly for the word or the moment or the thing that you were hoping they wouldn't notice, or inside didn't feel 100 percent secure about. If they point it out, then that really sends you the message of, "Okay, I was trying to override my own instincts about it, and I guess I shouldn't."

I think it's ridiculous that we even have to talk about gay rights as rights...It's gonna be as shocking as the treatment of slaves someday.

I would really hate it if I could call up Kafka or Hemingway or Salinger and any question I could throw at them they would have an answer. That's the magic when you read or hear something wonderful - there's no one that has all the answers.

I'm much more drawn to fiction, to short stories, and to plays, than I am to diarists.

I'm much more into someone who is telling stories than somebody who is writing a record about their breakup. It's just more interesting for me.

I am very close with my parents, they are very amazing, so loving, so cool, and really valued art.

I have the coolest parents.