Life is very short, try everything you've dreamed about (within the perimeters of sanity and the law) and regret nothing. Oh, and don't forget the sunscreen.

I wouldn't want to forget anything, even the weird stuff and the bad stuff. It makes you who you are.

Life is short, and I'd rather be sitting in the poor house doing what I love doing than making a lot of money and being miserable. Life is very short.

Mindi Scott has a real talent for getting inside her protagonist's head. She sketches out Coley's story in grand swathes, and then paints in all the little details, so that you feel as though you are enmeshed in Coley's brain: thinking her thoughts, feeling her confusion, anger, and, in the end, pain. I just don't think it's possible to read this book and not identify with Coley in some way.

I am in an extended self-directed course of study. That is, I am in control of my own life.

You were doing a TV show - you don't realise that you're also making social commentary at the same time.

I'm kissing Alyson Hannigan and I almost stuck my tongue in her mouth because we just got so into it at one point.