I think connection makes me vulnerable. Commitment makes me vulnerable, really.

I have a bit of a traveling addiction, and, ah, yeah. I went to, ah, Bali this summer.

You know, it's a very sexist society, Indonesia.

But I like being nasty. I like being cranky. Especially if it's a cold day in Chicago, it's nice to just take it out on Kyle, because he's so easy to scream at, you know?

It got a little boring I guess, playing the same note over and over.

I wanted to do an episode about Chuck having a gambling problem. I wanted to portray my addiction on the show. But I think it's a little edgy for Saturday night.

Technology changing the world so quickly. I think it's even more difficult for older people to keep up in the world. And that's a challenge.

But I used to have a bit of a gambling problem. And that would have been the answer to my prayers. It got worse when I started playing this character, too.

And TV is not the easiest place to be dangerous or on the edge. Especially on a Saturday night.

I like people and get along, and I'm afraid to express my anger and my rage.

Human beings. People's stories. That's really what gets me excited.

Reading brings us unknown friends

This skin cripples me. It always has. — Kai Cheng Thom to -----, 2013 (age 22)

There is a rule of Sharia: If the enemy wants to suppress you, you are supposed to put up a strong resistance.

Unable to love each other, the English turn naturally to dogs

I smiled back and I thought how incredible that was, that they would find the time to smile. There was goodness in the world still, even if you couldn’t always see it.

Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.

I've always wanted to work for, like, "Assume your audience is cleverer than you," rather than the other way around.

I don't want my writing to be so unique that when you apply it to different genres, it seems like the previous show that people know you from.

As soon as you put an actor to a person who is real, that person comes to life through another person.

Great Powers of falling wave and wind and windy fire, With your harmonious choir Encircle her I love and sing her into peace, That my old care may cease.