We've had some growing pains, but this show has always been a fighter, a survivor. It's like a family here.

Loneliness can either kill you or teach you depending on you being either a fighter or a survivor

He looked him right in the eyes and saw a man who was great and good and human, who had done extraordinary things and terrible things and been broken and reassembled as a shell, only then to do the bravest thing of all: He had kept on living, though there are easier paths to take.

You recognize a survivor when you see one. You recognize a fighter when you see one.

Nobody ever feels they're doing well with teenagers, he said. I think that's kind of the point of them.

Remember in elementary school you were told that in case of fire you have to line up quietly in a single file from smallest to tallest? What is the logic in that? What, do tall people burn slower?