My dad was a homicide cop in the gay neighborhood in the city when gay neighborhoods were desperate depressing sad places run by the mob. The only gay people he'd met when I came out to him were corpses.

I'm not sure what the future holds but I do know that I'm going to be positive and not wake up feeling desperate. As my dad said 'Nic it is what it is it's not what it should have been not what it could have been it is what it is.'

Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate admirable and noble kind of love.

Courage enlarges cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

My friend and I sang an a cappella rendition of Extreme's 'More Than Words' at one of our football pep rallies in a desperate attempt to look cool. For a while I wore pink Converse All Stars because I thought it made me seem daring and irreverent.

I am desperate for change - now - not in 8 years or 12 years but right now.

For the first time in my adult lifetime I am really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction.

Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down.

I think people are used to seeing actors be wide open and desperately giving of themselves and while I do that on a movie set as much as I can it's so unnatural for me to do it on television in interviews in anything like that. I also don't find that my process as an actor is really anyone else's business.

Business practices and how we treat the planet are also in desperate need of re-humanization.