I'm very focused on "Dexter" right now. I want to make it as good of a show as we can.

I think anybody would be hard pressed not to relate to at least one of the characters, because there's so many different multifaceted people populating this crazy world.

I like to think I am well-mannered. If I have the option at a breakfast place, I'll go with the grits. That's how Southern I am.

I don't think closeted homosexual morticians have the market cornered on self-loathing or sense of shame.

There are no secrets in life; just hidden truths that lie beneath the surface.

It's interesting to play a role where you don't really have to preoccupy yourself with any need to convince yourself that you're not acting.

People feel like they know me from the work I have done, but it's not me.

Marriage, children-you never expect it to end in tragedy. Unless you're me.

I think I had a shyness about me, I think I discovered acting as a way to break out of that and as a way of belonging, a sense of being special.

I never really considered acting as a career until I moved to New York.

My mother is a survivor who's had a lot of things happen in her life that have been very trying.

Easter is the invulnerable tale of utter selflessness where at an inestimable cost God did for us what He did not need done for Himself. And that kind of ‘doing’ happens every day.

A friend asked, "If increased awareness means less happiness, why bother?" No answer.

Never expect wolves to behave like sheep.

This is my future and I will take personal responsibility for making sure all competition requirements are met.

Whatever work he does, beyond what is sufficient to purchase his own maintenance, can be squeezed out of him by violence only, and not by any interest of his own.

When you study postpartum depression, there is a very clear understanding that in communities where you see more support, there is less depression.

Management is like making love. There's heat from both sides. You have an instinct to get there. You have no idea what you're really in for, but you do it anyway.

When it comes to God's existence, I'm not an atheist and I'm not agnostic. I'm an acrostic. The whole thing puzzles me.

I think that most people, and by people I mean journalists, think that I pre-conceive everything and that I spend my afternoons dreaming up self-mythologizing points of interest.

By the time I finished the book [All Alone in the Universe], Robin Roy was saying, "More pictures!"