Thankfully, I have my mom and a small group of close friends who are there for me 24/7 and whom I can trust and depend on.

I became much happier when I realized I shouldn't depend solely on my career for my sense of self. So I developed other interests and surrounded myself with a small group of friends I could trust.

Close friends consider me a literary snob.

We're a close group. And we want this for each other. We can take it all, I'm confident of that. Hopefully we'll get all the way to state and win it all.

I'm still single, but me and Lauren are really really really close friends.

At every stage of my career I have had interesting and cordial colleagues, some of whom are close friends.