I understand the self-loathing and the resentment, and the discipline that it takes to sit down in front of a typewriter or computer every single day, whether it's going well or not going well.

On the one hand, people think they own kids; they feel that they have the right to tell the kids what to do. On the other hand, people envy kids. We'd like to be kids our whole lives. Kids get to do what they do. They live on their instincts.

One of the great things about doing series television is the guest actors that you can have come on and play around with.

I don't think I'd ever be cruel to an animal.

I'm half Jewish, half Scottish. It's hard for me to buy anything.

Garry Shandling is someone I've publicly gone gay for, for jokes. Oh and anyone in the Twilight movies. I don't know any of their names, but all of them. The wolves, the vampires? They're all fantastic.

I don't need my phone to play me music. I need it to be a phone and an e-mail thing.