I was a really good student. I was nerdy and ambitious. I was involved with every large theater production at my school.

I definitely fell in love with Dracula when I was 13. I found it so fascinating and so dark and romantic.

You know what’s best for you, and you know what will make you happy.

My first job ever was working a ski lift when I was 16. I also worked at a garden center, which I loved. I did that for two and a half years.

I spent my childhood in Newfoundland and then my junior high and high school years in Alberta, Canada.

There is a wisdom in children, a kind of knowing, a kind of believing, that we, as adults, do not have. There is a time when a kingdom needs its children.

You can't just have a fight scene. In my opinion, it has to be a character moment or story moment.

Basically, I was a kid growing up with a single mother in Brooklyn.

According to the National Academy of Sciences, our current immigration system costs America's taxpayers many billions of dollars a year.

Have you not succeeded? Continue! Have you succeeded? Continue!

I want to have time. When you're doing a monthly book, you're like a man racing after a bus. You're breathless and red-faced. I want to build in quality control.

Everyone thinks their own situation most tragic. I am no exception.

I've been spending this last month trying to find four outfits to wear to the different premieres of The Two Towers. It's hard work.

To be a poet in a destitute time means: to attend, singing, to the trace of the fugitive gods. This is why the poet in the time of the world's night utters the holy.

There is a prayer that lives in the center of your heart. If you pray it, it will change your life. How does it begin?