You're talking to someone, to a reader, and you get to express in the way you want to. And you get to play with it. It's kind of like acting, but it's on paper.

Black eyeliner says 'You've been through stuff, you know things'.

I watch soap operas. I bake brownies. Normalcy is coursing through my veins.

I would like a nice, powerful, mind-altering substance. Preferably one that will make my unborn children grow gills.

I like soap opera acting. If it's done really well, there's nothing better. It's old school. It's like what those melodramas in the '30s and '40s were like

But it's fun to be something, have that, and you don't have to be real. It's like, comedians. They go on and they're doing all these jokes. I would be like that if I were more awake

An actor's career relies on a lot of luck. Being in the right place at the right time.

In the '90s, indie movies could get financing, because financers gave money straight to directors... Now it's a different system. Indie movies got co-opted by the studio system.

I haven't seen a bear in person. I've seen deer. I have lots of woodchucks on my property. And bluebirds. Foxes.

My dad recently reminded me that my grandfather's cousin was Lefty Frizzell.

I don't have a publisher yet, so I'm not in the process of that next stage and I don't know what that's going to look like. So I feel like I finished stage one [with my book].

I drew the duck blue because I've never seen a blue duck before and, to be honest with you I wanted to see a blue duck.

Some pray to marry the man they love, my prayer will somewhat vary: I humbly pray to heaven above that I love the man I marry.

You have the power to reverse your age.

Two messengers covered with dust come to bid me fly, but I wait for him.

I look at Justin Bieber and my heart breaks for him, because I know what he's going to go through. He knows it. Everybody knows it.

I can't imagine writing if I didn't have a reader. Any more than an actor can imagine acting without an audience.

Big ideas are so hard to recognize, so fragile, so easy to kill. don't forget that, all of you who don't have them.

Be brave with your life, so others will be brave with theirs.

Are we going to do any thinking today, or is it going to be all math?

Of two Evils we take the less.