You do in your art what you cannot do in your life.

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.

Religion without philosophy is sentiment, or sometimes fanaticism, while philosophy without religion is mental speculation.

Look, moonI turned silver for you.

Man errs as long as he struggles.

Humor is an antidote to all ills.

I feel confident writing on my feet with improv, but it's different when you're sitting down and writing it out.

That's the nature of research you don't know what in hell you're doing.

What harbor can receive you more securely than a great library?

Don't kiss a man who hasn't shaved.

I embraced, I think, the process of becoming No. 1 of the world, which was long and difficult, but it's sweeter in the end.

The more profound problem, however, is the degree to which many academic intellectuals, especially in the humanities, have lost their ability to distinguish the 'state' from 'society'.