If I'm in a bar and I gotta be sitting next to some clown who's like, "It's my tune," I don't want to hear you belt out Bruce Springsteen. That's why we have jukeboxes! Let's let Bruce be Bruce.

I like pizza and I like cheeseburgers a lot and I like Chicago food a lot.

If you have the ability to work with people smarter than you, always try to be the least smartest person in the room and surround yourself with talent, because iron sharpens iron.

You know, I'll tell you, nothing changed after 'No Strings' for me. A lot of people said, like, 'Your game will be different,' but it wasn't. It really wasn't.

Aspire to do better. Instead of being the leader of the group, be the little person.

I like dogs, but I have more respect for cats.

I always thought, if you're gonna do TV, you want to play a straight, solid, pillar-of-the-show kind of guy.

I feel like L.A. is more of a showcase, and Chicago is a pure comedy scene where you're doing comedy for comedy. You're doing comedy actually for the audience that's there.

I never thought I'd be one of those guys who gets recognized.

I love when people on Twitter give advice.

I'll be honest, I like shooting 'New Girl.' I like the people. The show is still new to me. I've never done TV like this before.

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.

It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.

I'll tell you a secret.Old storytellers never die.They disappear into their own story.

If you insist on disavowing that which is ugly about what you do, " said Magnus, still looking at Alec, "you will never learn from your mistakes.

Watch other people for clues about who they are, not just clues about how much they are or are not like you.

Like every other girl in the world, my most embarrassing moment had to do with a guy completely turning me down. His loss!

Passing out while you try to kill yourself is like failing at failing.

I take six or seven years to write really small books. There is a kind of aesthetic of leanness, of brevity.

No matter what you're going through, there is no temporary feeling or circumstance that can take away the core of who you are.

The deep of night is crept upon our talk, And Nature must obey necessity.