Well, when I moved to L.A. at 17, I had just come out of high school. I grew up and went to public school in Boston.

My mother would take groups of students to different countries and always brought us along, so by the time I was 10, I had been to Russia, China, Nicaragua and several other countries.

My parents divorced when I was born, and my mother is a political science professor, like a feminist Mormon, which is sort of an oxymoron.

I remember hitting Sarah Michelle Gellar with a right hook during my first week on the job. It was awful. They usually pair actors with stunt doubles to avoid things like that.

Go big or go home. Because it's true. What do you have to lose?

There is definitely something sexy about a girl with an attitude and a pair of leather pants.

Sometimes it feels like you're losing, but even when you're losing, you're getting something.

I don't let guys do hickeys. That's like a dog marking his territory or something.

When you get to your mid-20s, you start to feel responsibilities for the things that you do and the people around you. It's a cool age.

It's still a pretty sexist world out there and someone's got to stand up and say something.

Rhymes with push-koo; I always say it sounds like a breakfast cereal.

Happiness is a very pretty thing to feel, but very dry to talk about.

Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.

Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books.

If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.

People in my family and camp who grew up listening to rap music love 'We Are Young.' I've heard it play at weddings. I've heard it in graduation parties. It's a big idea and big song.

The great Jewish scientists and philosophers of the last few generations - Spinoza, Einstein, Freud, Robert Oppenheimer and others - were natives of Europe and America.

I hear the tread of pioneers Of nations yet to be, The first low wash of waves where soon Shall roll a human sea.

I don't care about my "impact" - I only care about the theater as an art form and criticism as an act of writing.

What unites the church is infinitely more important than what divides us.

UNUSED LYRIC I’ve never been to Eden But it’s nice I hear tell When I die I’ll go to heaven ’Cause I’ve done my time in hell