My dad wanted to name me after Rainier Maria Rilke, the poet.

The camera adds ten pounds and ten thousand dollars.

Not everything is a lesson. Sometimes you just fail.

I think that charity is a tricky thing, because a lot of times, people equate charity with handouts. I don't believe in handouts.

The great challenge working on this show for me is wearing polyester all day long and having the worst haircut known to man at the top of my head and sitting under fluorescent lights. That is America, people. Polyester, bad haircuts, under fluorescent lights.

We've seen that there are a lot of people out there - teenagers in Topeka, housewives in Long Island, millionaire Internet start-up moguls - that all want to connect with each other about what it is to be human.

I think Dwight loves being number two. I don't think he has any desire to be number one. He wants to be number two no matter where he goes. It's like Avis. 'We try harder.' That's Dwight.