“I wanted to be a forensic scientist when I was younger. For a long time, I was studying because I wanted to do that sort of stuff.”

Everyone has secrets and everyone tells lies.

I like acting because I get to find different parts of myself, or at least create different parts that don’t already exist, and see the world through someone else’s eyes.

The first show I ever worked on was The Killing, which was a whodunit crime show.

Anything crime related and anything excessively bloody and violent, my brain immediately goes to the science. I think about, “How did you do this? How can we catch you?”

People have been talking about multiverses as a philosophical idea for a long time. But the current incarnations in physics

I love to believe that there’s one god but there’s many different religions so there’s just the question of which long distance company you pick.

In the New Yorker library, I have long been shelved between Nadine Gordimer and Brendan Gill; an eerie little space nestled between high seriousness of purpose and legendary lightness of touch.

American long for a closed society in which everything can be bought, where laborers are either hidden away or dressed up as nonhumans, so as not to be disconcerting. This place is called Disney World.

Ronald Reagan perfected the subtler version long ago by talking about “welfare mothers” – a code phrase for people of colour.

A long December and there’s reason to believe, maybe this year will be better than the last.

I usually know the general emotion of a song, or the general feeling of it, and then I think I just get so excited by the act of recording. I love that process so much that I feel like if

Of all the unexpected things in contemporary literature, this is among the oddest: that kids have an inordinate appetite for very long, very tricky, very strange books about places that don’t exist…