As The O.C. started up again, I started to feel myself potentially getting pulled away.

It's my experience that the fluidity of sexuality with younger people is more accepted.

I think our show is very different from Orange County.

I'd started working when I was 21 and had been very determined about my career, very focused, even as a little kid, so it was something I had been working at for a long time.

It's really hard in this day and age, with radio and MTV being so consolidated, to get new music out there. I think we've become a really legitimate, viable avenue for getting new music out there.

Certainly there's got to be a little bit of reality show fatigue happening.

Year Two is a critical year for any television show.

I want every character be an outsider in some way.

I am the kind of person that takes everything as is and then look at it from the outside looking in.

I think you're only as good as the work that you do.

Like they said about The West Wing, you can't do a show about Washington until you can.

And I, infinitesima­l being, drunk with the great starry void, likeness, image of mystery, I felt myself a pure part of the abyss, I wheeled with the stars, my heart broke loose on the wind.

Sometimes new opportunity means new opposition. Not everything God asks us to do will be comfortable.

We hope that we will live only because we must be with God, as alive as He is.

Locate your own territory and help others achieve theirs

I never grew up reading or fantasizing about fairy tales. I was always too busy, like, outside being a kid.

If for no other reason, personal pride should prompt every governor and state legislator to take a secessionist attitude; they were not elected to be lackeys of the federal bureaucracy.

I would die for my country, but I could never let my country die for me.

Seeing is an experience. People, not their eyes, see. There is more to seeing than meets the eyeball.

It's always great when you get a lot of people pushing themselves to do better, be better, invent better, better serve, better lead customers in new directions.

I worked at restaurants and coffee shops and babysitting and just whatever I could do to make money.