Like they said about The West Wing, you can't do a show about Washington until you can.

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 want every character be an outsider in some way.

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.

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.

To find your way you must first take the steps

Tears were frozen to the book theif's face.

I know that I'm crazy. And that has made all the difference." From: Furiously Happy: A funny book about horrible things.

...all nature is perverse & will not do as I wish it.

I never blame failure - there are too many complicated situations in life - but I am absolutely merciless toward lack of effort.

So basically, I graduated high school a semester early.

Too many people make the past their identity and spend the rest of their lives accumulating sympathy for their past pain.

The written word is the link between the past and the future.

The bottom line is that the death tax is a tax on the economy because it slows economic growth.

We work with the people not out of pity but out of respect for their potential for growth and development, both as individuals and as communities.