The press always ends up being much nicer than I expect. A lot of times they say something snarky about you, but then you meet them in person and they couldn't be nicer.

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.

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

If it is necessary for us to do anything [in view of peace], direct us and architect.πρὸς τάδ’ ἡμῖν, εἴ τι χρὴ δρᾶν, φράζε κἀρχιτεκτόνει.

I trade with you my mind.

Communion, by necessity, always leads us into community.

Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

Design is a matter of balancing different needs and outlooks-practical and aesthetic, masculine and feminine, designer and client, dream and reality.

I learned a long time ago in Hollywood that the only person I should vote for is myself.

My name is James Guckert. Well, when you read it, it's always pronounced some other way.

Every situation--nay, every moment--is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.

You can never have enough garlic. With enough garlic, you can eat The New York Times.

You can never have too much sky.