I don't think I've ever done anything that's completely the same, yet.

We're naturally afraid of a spider - these are memories that are being chemically passed down through your DNA.

I think [it's necessary to accept] things that are just true about yourself: These are my faults, these are the things I'm good at, this is where I came from, this is where I didn't come from. I think happy people are the ones who have made peace with those truths and acknowledged them, and learned to use them and live with them.

I do think a lot about the past.

I'm a history person, and I love the groundedness of that, of being able to go, "Yes! People acted like that."

When I was thinking about all the things that the world had forgotten, it made me think about people who have actually really forgotten everything, and how much of our identity is wrapped up in those memories, and how much of our experience makes us who we are, and remembering those experiences makes us who we are.

I think there's a lot that we remember almost chemically, through our DNA.