"Every day is intense and alive, whether it's travel, work, even down time, which there is so little of."

"I think I've spent so much time playing characters that are so far away from me and learning how to technically build and how to technically put something on top of you."

"It's funny, but we were living on this small island off the coast of Charleston, South Carolina when I was 9."

"New York has got this sort of wonderful romantic idea of the South."

"Whatever feminists may say about their only advocating choices, everyone knows the truth: Feminism regards work outside the home as more elevating, honorable, and personally productive than full-time mothering and making a home."

"I used to go to the comic store all the time. I was into comic cards, which are essentially baseball cards for comic book heroes. They have these cool stats on the back. I had collections of these things. I still have a lot of my collection at home."

"For me, unemployment and poverty in the Greater Montreal area is not mainly a problem of structure, or design, or statistics. It is a profoundly human situation."

"I grew up in an abusive home and was told on a daily basis by my father that I would never amount to anything and that I looked like a boy."