When I was younger, I'd be like 'Would you like to go to dinner' and the girl would be like 'Meh.' But then I was like 'Do you want to go with me for a drink somewhere?' and she'd be like 'Okay.

I usually like to throw on some flip flops and go to a really nice lunch in Venice, or Santa Monica, or stay in and cook dinner.

I think a nice romantic dinner should be saved for when you and the girl you're dating or seeing have something special and it's a more special occasion.

If you always have a crutch, you don't learn anything.

A lot of the problems teenagers go through, it's better for them to go through them on their own. If you always have a crutch, you don't learn anything.

A lot of people say the sitcom is dead. I think they're right to some extent, in that the shows they're putting out are all the same.

For me personally, I'm mostly focused on writing and acting right now.

I'm inspired by music. Sometimes more than I want to be.

I did not find my way out of the darkness until I admitted I was lost.

Statements don't exist by themselves. Just like people, they are in relationship with one another.

You have to try, you have to try everything you can.

I do not support Common Core because there is absolutely no evidence that a big, centralized bureaucracy makes anything better. In fact, there is a lot of evidence to the contrary.

A Catholic may sin and sin as badly as anyone else, but no genuine Catholic ever denies he is a sinner. A Catholic wants his sins forgiven - not excused or sublimated.

One of the hardest parts of writing is writing from the gut or the heart or something like that rather than intellectually.

When it comes to letting the world in on the secrets of his heart, he has about as much shrinking reticence as a steam calliope.

Like I'm going to pass up an opportunity to smack your cousin.

It takes a level of creative depression to hear 'Girls Just Wanna Have Fun' and weep.

Nobody can come and be involved in the #LoveArmy unless they have a heart.