Rob Lowe

I love anything by Joan Didion. Incidentally, she was one of the local moms when I was growing up in Point Dume. She always reminded me a little bit of my mother, so I feel a great affinity. I love the precision of Didion's writing. There's a construction and a craftsmanship to her sentences that's imbued with so much emotion.

Somewhere in my callow, misspent youth, I was smart enough to marry my best friend.

If I had been on 'Ally McBeal,' I would have been seen coming out of the shower on the first show.

The challenge as a parent is letting your kids fail in the right ways because that's where we do most of our learning.

In my bachelor days, the priority wasn't learning to cook.

I had had some successes in the '90s, always made money, but the truth was I was like a man pushing a boulder up a hill. A huge, heavy, difficult boulder made up of some career mistakes, projects that didn't meet expectations, and twenty years of being a known quantity.

I never get bored talking about themes dealing with ambition, leadership and what it means to be an American. I love that stuff. I just love it. I've loved it ever since I was on 'The West Wing.'

The '90s were a time of building for me. Building a life that was sober, drained of harmful, wasteful excess and manufacturing in its place a family of my own.

Individuals usually do a better job than the government.

The cast of 'Parks & Rec' is just a group of unbelievably nice, humble, down to earth, hilarious friends.

The first private space of my own wasn't a dorm room; it was a hotel room in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Equality for everybody is great. That would be amazing.