“Here's a habit I never thought I'd develop: I gravitate to anything on...” — Susan Orlean Quote

Here's a habit I never thought I'd develop: I gravitate to anything online that's marked 'most popular' or 'most e-mailed.' And I hate myself a little bit every time I do.

Parents, it seems, have an almost Olympian persistence when it comes to suggesting more secure and lucrative lines of work for their children who have the notion that writing is an actual profession. I say this from experience.

Oversized houses, like oversized cars, seem to be a particularly American fixation.

There are cultures that believe having your photograph taken steals your soul. I don't think there is a stolen soul in a picture, but still - why is it so hard to throw them away?

I definitely gravitate toward characters that have a lot of integrity and it's so important to be to be working on shows that tell great stories.

I don't like to go trampling on other people's sounds. That's really about it - I don't gravitate towards it, I try to move away from it.

Flowers are just a natural thing in my life. I gravitate towards them so much, just in every video that I do, every visual, for some reason, flowers are incorporated.

Songs like 'I Believe In You' are why I tend to gravitate towards being so laid back.

I don't know if women gravitate toward me, or I gravitate toward them.