Growing up, my father was a financial analyst for an oil company. He was just a regular dad. And when I would say, 'Hey, come see my play,' he'd say, 'Sure.' He'd see one, 'Oh, good play' - you know, very typical dad reaction.

I never felt cool growing up. I was a bit of an outsider, but I discovered theatre very early on, which got me through.

I love learning language and ideas that I didn't know before and making them sound like my own.

In the future, things will truncate! No, in the age of Twitter, we can't be upset when words become shorter.

A sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter. It is the fruit of the equal marriage of the sun and frost.

The drive toward Life is protective, thoughtful, vulnerable, and invested in immaculate love. It is this last that marks the difference between a wise heart muddy with real life experiences in the trenches and a dry heart that functions on rote concepts alone.

My two elder sisters married Englishmen and went abroad.

Short of the passage of a Constitutional Amendment protecting marriage as between one man and one woman, the U.S. Supreme Court has the final say.