Defining yourself by your taste is easier than defining yourself by any genuine stance on something.

I'm a huge proponent of therapy and analysis, but it's something that, in a nonprofessional way, can be abused.

It's going to start really interfering with your quality of life, your health, if you don't adjust to life as it's happening to you.

I try to procrastinate, if I can, productively, like I'll work on something else as procrastination. Or I take a walk. Because often I find, if you get out, more things come to you.

I still carry the residue of the pressure I felt as a child to read and appreciate the right books. Growing up, I never allowed myself to read beach reading. I was always plowing through Ford Madox Ford's 'Good Solider' or something I wasn't equipped to understand.

Woody Allen's movies are so much a part of me. I grew up watching them over and over and would read all his comic pieces for the New Yorker. In some ways, his influence is so much there that I can't even locate it any more.