There's never enough hours in the day to do what you want to do. What I've become OK with is that not everything can be done today. As long as I can get that time in with my son, then I can get all of the other stuff done today or tomorrow.

It takes a lot out of you to do a one-hour episodic lead of a show. I don't think actors realize that when they take the job.

If I could do theater during the hiatus and then do '30 Rock' in the winter, that would be my ideal job.

I still get thrilled by the energy that is a live performance, the fear and the panic and the electricity that happens on the night. I think jolting myself every once in a while with that fear is a good thing for me.

Our farmers have become family.

No one in my family is in show business, unless you count dog shows as show business.

I come from a working-class family. They're the people I know and the people I love, I guess. I do not write about them for political reasons, but because, as I see it, most interesting things - social, political, emotional - take place there. It's a bottomless well for an author like me.

I didn't enjoy my college life in Noida much because I was quite disoriented there, since I was staying away from my family.