I've had a lot of people tell me they wish I were their principal.

I had spent many years before I was 31 hearing people tell me, Oh Man, you're so funny, you need to be in television. But that and a quarter won't get you on a bus.

Teachers are out there with a very difficult job, which they pursue with tireless dedication.

It is a different genre - a show about something other than doctors, lawyers and cops. Teachers are something completely different. I think it makes for very interesting television

Let's be real: It's just TV; it's just entertainment

You have to take some dramatic license just to make it entertaining sometimes

There is a lot going on in high schools, and I think what we portray is fairly accurate

When you wear a fresh pair of shoes, you feel like you can never die. You feel like you're gonna live forever.

Someone said to me today, ‘Everybody loved PUSING DAISIES,’ I said, ‘No, they didn’t— that’s why I’m here today talking about a new show.’

In movies, I have had the opportunity of working with some of the people that I respect very much.

I was working at a phone company. I got tired of my life and wanted to change it.

Measurements "are never enough. The artist's eye and desire to breathe life into the subject must be the deciding factors.

You want to lay yourself out like an appetizer, go ahead.

It's just the most amazing thing to love a dog isn't it? It makes our relationships with people seem as boring as a bowl of oatmeal.

I didn't want to be anyone else.

My objective is to build a bridge to a person, to establish a dialogue.

Rage filled me at her words - cold, black, unending rage. Whatever happened to me, Mab would not hurt my sister again. She would not.

A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I'm writing about New York.

I think communication starts when words are not present at all ... I think we put so much emphasis on language, actually silence is so much more important.

To be patient in an emergency is a terrible trial.