“Sometimes as human beings, we’re so contradictory – we may say something or do something and completely contradict ourselves.”

It’s been such a gift that there was so much TV and independent film happening in New York that I could be a part of.

Being on a show with a female lead is amazing for me. I love that. I love the powerful woman who’s complicated.

I grew up in a very suburban neighborhood, so I was used to everything being safe and lovely.

You don’t always have the time to do that. You learn very quickly, I think, how essential it is to come in with the strongest choice that you have.

That’s what I’m learning to embrace in television – not knowing what’s going to happen.

There was something to satiate my desire to be artistic and creative, especially when it wasn’t in the way I originally thought it was going to be.

When you do a play, you have all this time to rehearse and grow into the character. In television, even though you’re waiting and waiting and waiting,

The courage to decide that I have a voice and need to do what I love. To believe that this opportunity is not wasted on me. To own the fact that I am worthy.

If you’re doing an indie and you have time, sometimes you can do take after take after take, but if you’re working in television on that filming schedule,

I might make a specific choice for myself and then in the next episode the writers might write something that contradicts it.

When the doors to television were opened to me, that was quite a surprise.

There is a voice inside of my head that is trying to convince me that I’m not good enough and that I don’t deserve to be here in Hollywood. So courage is required.

I have the happy circumstance of either being accused of political grandstanding on the one hand or cover-ups on the other.

That happens every time I get behind a guitar, regardless of what I’m saying, ’cause music is freedom and being free is the closest I’ve ever felt to being spiritual.

There is something very sublime, though very fanciful, in Plato’s description of the Supreme Being,–that truth is His body and light His shadow.

I hope to keep bringing home bound paper books until my shelves snap from their weight, until there is no room in my apartment for a bed or a couch or another human being, until the floorboards collapse and my eyes blur to dim. But the book, bless it, is not a simple thing.

Nobody kicks on being interrupted if it’s by applause.

There’s a huge difference between being in love and being in love with the thought of love. Recognize the difference. Never settle.

I do love the beginning of the summer hols,’ said Julian. They always seem to stretch out ahead for ages and ages.’ ‘They go so nice and slowly at first,’ said Anne, his little sister. ‘Then they start to gallop.

I’m lucky because the strongest emotion I have ever felt is being in love, and that definitely informs my writing.