My problem is that my imagination won't turn off. I wake up so excited I can't eat breakfast. I've never run out of energy. It's not like OPEC oil; I don't worry about a premium going on my energy. It's just always been there. I got it from my mom.

I love history. It was the only thing I did well at in school. I'm not ashamed to admit that I was not a good student but I was great at history.

Unprotected sex just feels better in a Waffle House bathroom.

I've always sort of time-locked and mind-blocked myself in my 30s, and that's always the age I feel.

Documentaries are the first line of education, and the second line of education is dramatization, such as 'The Pacific'.

You never really know how good of a leader you are until there is something there is lead us to, toward or through or to overcome.

When I was very young, I remember my mother telling me about a friend of hers in Germany, a pianist who played a symphony that wasn't permitted, and the Germans came up on stage and broke every finger on her hands. I grew up with stories of Nazis breaking the fingers of Jews.