People are tired of just watching their TV set passively. They are playing interactive games today. They are on the Internet interacting. They want to be part of their TV set.

It's very difficult to get your ideas to Hollywood if you're the average Joe or Jane. An agent wouldn't bother with you.

I think there is a danger there of being mean to people and humiliating people and embarrassing people just because it might get you ratings. It is a disturbing trend.

A lot of reality shows tend to harp on the negative. The person isn't pretty enough or can't sing well enough or maybe isn't even funny enough.

I want to entertain people, whether it be with a comedy, a drama or a movie. An idea's an idea.

I'm trying to tell a story, to entertain. I try and do something that might just take people's minds off their troubles.

It is a different breed of person who wants to be on a reality-TV show.

You're writing every moment in your mind but not putting it down on paper. Write your thoughts

You're a wizard," I snapped. "Can't you just use magic to make your own food?" "Ah, yes," he retorted. "Because mud pies are so very delicious and the wind fills empty stomachs quite nicely.

If we are in tune with Nature, all her music can find a way into the heart. When bird music is rare, their occasional songs are precious to the ear.

a woman's heart has no wrinkles.

Kids own nothing. Everything is either promised, borrowed, longed for or exaggerated.

Brad Pitt is older than Archie Bunker was in the first two seasons of All In The Family.

Why do our parents have the ability to make us feel like children even when our hair is graying and we have a mortgage that feels like a Third World debt? (135)

We shouldn't censor ourselves based on the weak idea of "looking cool." It's such a waste of potential awesomeness.

The most important thing is insight, that is to be - curious - to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.