Criticism is something that you have to take, regardless of what you do.

Journalism and the questions of journalistic ethics, and why certain stories are put on the air, when, how and for what reasons, are big questions in our culture and society.

Having the audience know more than the characters is precisely where you want to be in terms of drama. You can engage them much more when that is the case.

I have always been politically active and vaguely dissatisfied with the state of news, but I wasn't sure why.

Even if you go out there and try to make the most vanilla, non-offensive TV show possible, people are going to criticize you for doing that. It's just part of the game. You can't let it get to you.

As an actor playing a character, I can't come in with my judgement, or else I can't play it honestly. My judgement has to be reserved for later.

I'm so super interested in what it is to stir things up and to listen to people.

I am very interested in asking questions, and I am very interested in being involved in shows that ask people to think and feel.

I don't even drink! I can't stand the taste of alcohol. Every New Year's Eve I try one drink and every time it makes me feel sick. So I don't touch booze - I'm always the designated driver.

A vote for Mitt Romney is a vote for Satan.

When we know deep down that we're acting with integrity despite impulses to do otherwise, we feel gates of higher energy and inspiration open inside of us.

I'm going to come out and tell it like it is.

I have no internet savvy whatsoever, but I love researching things. The Internet is my library... beyond that, I'm completely intimidated by it.

Flower and thorn are in the same stem.

As a writer no one's gonna tell me how to write. I'm gonna write the way I wanna write!

The steak ain't right without the A-1 So I stay dipped in sauce and they come

A great pair of shoes can make a $20 outfit look like couture, and a poorly constructed pair of shoes can make couture look like a cheap knockoff.

Martyrdom, as a rule, establishes the sincerity of the martyr, never the correctness of his thought. Things are true or false in themselves.