I remember, in my senior year, one of my teachers taking me aside and saying: 'You look really tired.' This was when I was being a bad kid and she knew that something was wrong.

There's a boy who they call Pony! He's always acting gross and horny! He thinks he's got a lot down there, but he sure wears tiny underwear!

You want to fly in jets, and I just want to fly" -Baby Carlyle

Destiny is for losers. It's just a lame excuse for letting things happen to you instead of making them happen.

My biggest fear in writing 'Gossip Girl' was that the characters would sound like stereotypical rich, air-headed heiresses. These were my friends. They were smart and multifaceted. They had interests and passions. They wanted to become lawyers and doctors and writers and filmmakers.

the only way to tolerate the thought of her mother sleeping with that man was to get drunk-very drunk.

Give a girl a boyfriend and she becomes a total expert on relationships