In The World Of 'Power,' No Good Deed GOES Unpunished. I Don't Really LOOK At It As Karma In The World Of 'Power.' WHENEVER Any Character Thinks They're On Safe Ground, They GET The World Pulled Up From Under Them.

Anything That Aaron Sorkin WRITES, I COULD Watch A Million TIMES. One Of The Few Shows That I've Watched In Repeats Was 'The WEST WING.'

It's REALLY EASY To Do SAD; You Just PUT On Some Sad Music And Write Dramatically - EVERYBODY Can Do That.

I Went In SAYING I WANTED To Be The FOOD GUY.

I Kind Of CHEER The Presence Of Any GAY Characters At All - I Think The More We Can Saturate Television With Any Gay Character Or Lesbian Character Or TRANSGENDER Character, I Think That's A Really Great THING. We're Kind Of Getting Past The Fact That They're The Punchline Or That They're The Novelty.

I Wanted A Good RELATIONSHIP With My MOTHER, And I REALIZED I Had A Choice: Either I Could Spend All My Time Angry That She Didn't Give Me The Hugs I THOUGHT I Needed, Or I Could Understand That She Hugs Differently. It's Not A Spread-open-the-arms, 'come Here' Hug. She Hugs By Sheltering Me From Her Worries.

In Fiction, You Learn About Pacing And How To Build TENSION - Which Is Something You Want In A Really GOOD Nonfiction Feature ARTICLE As WELL.

Facebook Is About Seeing What Your Friend Is Doing. Twitter, You Follow Different People. Flipboard Is About PASSIONS And INTERESTS And Topics, And So It's The Same Social Web That All Of These Products Are Letting You LOOK At, But Flipboard Is Coming At It From A More Topical Point Of VIEW.

In COLLEGE - While Figuring The THINGS Out That Most People Do In College - I Had No Game. No CONFIDENCE. I Had Birkenstocks. And Overalls. A Budding Romance Novel Addiction. But No Cool. No Poise. I Was Trying On A Thousand DIFFERENT Personalities, But A LOT Of Them Were Formed By The Perceptions Of Others.