There are so many elements and nuances from the books that are very hard to tell in the length of a movie.

If I can entertain and expand awareness then I feel like I've fulfilled a purpose.

Music has always been part of my life.

People seem generally happy to see their favorite world come to life, even if it it slightly changed to fit storytelling for television.

Interacting with fans has become one of my favorite things.

It is so cool to have a fanbase that has been so involved since the casting process.

I play piano (bit of guitar) and I sing and I love to jam and harmonize with other musical people.

Maybe I'd be a storyboard artist. Graphic novel/comic book artist. Backup dancer. Singer. It would be cool to focus on one of these full time. But I like seeing them all intertwine.

What was the point, I had to wonder, of fighting so hard to learn to protect my life if I was destroying it in the process?

The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

I'll get cast occasionally as sort of the jerk version of myself, and I have fun doing that. But it's really better for everyone if I stay behind the camera.

Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method

Obviously, a writer can't know everything about what she writes. It's impossible.

When you die it's the same as if everybody else did too.

She lived, we'll say, A harmless life, she called a virtuous life, A quiet life, which was not life at all (But that she had not lived enough to know)

Dennis to friend: No use crying, Joey. There aren't any grownups around.

There is great unanimity among the dissolute. [Lat., Magna inter molles concordia.]

Don't swear off all the fruits just because you ate one bad apple.