I find there's almost no place to put an award that one's quite comfortable with.

I find there's almost no place to put an award that one's quite comfortable with.

Also, I had read a book called She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders, written by a professor who had gone through transgender surgery, but it took this person well into his thirties to come to terms with the absolute necessity of having to do it.

Society historically has a difficult time with the concept of something new and foreign that shakes up our comfortable views, especially if it involves the very volatile question of sexual identity.

I learned a lot more about transgender people. It's not a choice, but a physiological condition that has to do with the size of the hypothalamus part of the brain.

You know, I once leased a Mercedes because I got a good deal on it because of my first name.

We have the tendency to condemn what we don't understand.

In this business, you never say no to anything.

Writing of that caliber spoils you for any other kind of writing for awhile. But that's probably good.

I'll be with The Goat until the fall. Then I've been given three plays to look at and there have been a couple of films have come over the desk. I will probably not do either one of them.

But in my own particular case, there was something that happened when I became a mother. Whenever in the news I saw an example of a child being abused or mistreated, my response went from being appalled to being physically revolted.

Nature chooses who will be transgender; individuals don't choose this.

When I finish a job, I surrender it completely. I have to, because after that, it really is out of my hands.

The rolling contract was designed to specifically take away some of that retirement talk and retirement issue.

Typically, your corporate e-mail account is not, today, that spam-targeted. It's more the free e-mail accounts that are spam-targeted.

Information storage has to take place at the unconscious level.

We're entering a new world in which data may be more important than software.

The psychology of women hitherto actually represents a deposit of the desires and disappointments of men.

I figure the oldies are real close to what rocking country use to be.

There is no one magic move or secret that creates victory, but lots of little items that when added together can make you victorious.

I thought I was going to be like Kevin Spacey in college.

People always say I write a lot of pop culture references. Can somebody please count the pop culture references in 'Firefly?' Because I don't know how to put this to you, but there was one. I referenced The Beatles in the pilot.

'Grimm,' I think, is a unique show in a lot of ways. There is certainly nothing on TV that looks like 'Grimm'.

In a way, it's taken me 25 years to acknowledge that I am from the West Coast. I was always sort of pretending I was bicoastal or that I really belonged on the East Coast.

Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness

The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.

I suffer the terrible disease of low self-esteem.

A movie as specific as 'Heathers,' which took place in a specific time and specific place and in which many of the characters got killed off, I never thought it made sense to see a sequel.

I stand up for other people, I'm very protective of people around me. If I feel like somebody is getting a bad rap or being unfairly picked on, I will stand up for them, absolutely.

That is the real problem of depression - a condition which will affect an estimated one in five of the population at some point in their lives. It is completely unimaginable until you have been through it.

My father was a Japanese prisoner of war, a survivor of the Thai-Burma Death Railway, built by a quarter of a million slave labourers in 1943. Between 100,000 and 200,000 died.

Getting people health insurance is a good thing, and that's what Tom Stemberg fought for.

The first time I got recognized in public was at a movie theater. It was at the 'Lord of the Rings' movie premiere. I was at the movie theater, and someone came up, and it was so weird to me, because I had never been recognized by a viewer, so I thought that was scary.

The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.

Trust is hard to come by. That's why my circle is small and tight. I'm kind of funny about making new friends.

Barbecue is the third rail of North Carolina politics.