I want every character be an outsider in some way.

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 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.

The fun thing about TV is you get the opportunity to discover things, and somebody who starts off in a smaller part can really emerge and surprise you.

They were almond cookies, although they could have been made of spinach and shoes for all I cared. I ate eleven of them, right in a row. It is rude to take the last cookie.

He [Bloch] was one of those touchy, highly-strung people who cannot bear to have made a blunder, will not admit it to themselves, and whose whole day is ruined by it.

The best way to uncolor the Negro is to give the white man a white heart.

Homesickness for the gutter.

I don't recognize myself in the players I see today. There's only one who excites me, and that is Thierry Henry. He's not just a great footballer, he's a showman, an entertainer.

I thought Michael Mortilla was an orchestra unto himself!

I wake up from dreams and go, 'Wow, put this down on paper'. The whole thing is strange. You hear the words, everything is right there in front of your face.

The tiger lies low not from fear, but for aim. ~Wren

I love the truth. It's the facts I'm not a fan of.

Human beings cling to their delicious tyrannies and to their exquisite nonsense, till death stares them in the face.