To be fair, that MTV was very cooperative with the film [ "Josie and the Pussycats" ], and this MTV has been very cooperative. I actually didn't even think about it until you said it.

It is not like every episode [of "Mary and Jane"] people are sitting around getting high.

There are more stakes [in Mary and Jane], which is always good.

There are a couple of things that we did not get to do last season [of Mary and Jane]. There was one that we had written and then we had to excise it and still have not gone back to it.

It is not an easy thing to do [found the tone right away].

We both [wuth Harry Elfont] had those sort of misfit childhoods.

I was trying to think of a word that was not offensive. Yeah, Harry [Elfont] is right - it is kind of a different MTV for sure.

The bad part is life continues. The good part is that the pain goes away.

Always speak first to the toughest person in the room.

Oh, it's no crime to want and need somebody to love and to be loved by and to go and do what you need to do to have that, but its certainly a pity when you want it so badly you'll let it be anybody.

When in public poetry should take off its clothes and wave to the nearest person in sight; it should be seen in the company of thieves and lovers rather than that of journalists and publishers.

I love America. I lived here too but my links are exclusively Italian.

I like cats. I used to have a lot of cats, but I don't anymore, now I just have a dog. It does take a certain temperament to have a cat, as they do have certain personalities.

Life's essential length is only a few pages long, as succinct as a line of verse and as brief as the title of a poem.

The problem with me is I read everything, but it's only the bad stuff that stays with me. It's weird, you only need to be told something once and it stays with you.

The single most important aspect of the Transition involves the selection of personnel to manage the transfer of responsibility. The law provides roughly ten weeks to accomplish this process.

I think I was nervous enough, even at 3:00 a.m., that you could hear my heart beating over the microphone.