"The most important thing I would say, with all seriousness, is to please remember that this is just a television show and Darren [Criss] and I are actors. My Twitter feed is full of angry people saying they’ve been emotionally distraught for weeks and they’re going to harm themselves if they break up. I know these are mostly exaggerations, but it’s still concerning. A TV show is never worth any of that."

"Whatever makes the girls on the internet happy, because the angry tweets I get sometimes scare the hell out of me."

"My bottom line is that I want Kurt to be happy. He was not very happy last season. So whatever that entails, if they break up, stay together, attempt a long distance relationship, I’m on board. I just want to see Kurt happy for a change."

"I think I just want to leave my mark in some way. I hope I leave the world a better place than it was when I came, and I think the best way I can do that is through acting and writing, and hopefully it will make a difference someday."

"When production wrapped on Struck By Lightning, I wasn’t ready to say good-bye to these characters and was thrilled when Little, Brown asked me to adapt the story into a novel. I felt the best way to tell Carson’s story was through his critical eyes in a journal he kept the last months of his life. So this is a story about adolescence, told through the eyes of a teenager, for other teenagers."

"No one’s going to hand you things. To be completely frank, if you’re someone like me, and you’re a really specific, niche type of person, you really have to make opportunities yourself. You don’t have to be a genius to think that. When I look back at my childhood heroes, I realize there was no one who was me in a nutshell. There wasn’t one person I wanted to be. I wanted to be Tina Fey slash Woody Allen slash Mickey Mouse. So, I had to be a template for myself."

"I have my frustrations with it like any writer would. But, it’s not my call, it’s someone else’s network, it’s someone else’s vision. I was just excited to be working for the Mouse. It was cool to have a badge that said I was a Disney employee. But it was almost like a writing class. One day they would say, “We want you to change the pilot from 12- year-olds to 15-year-olds,” and in the next draft, two weeks later, they’d say, “Now we want it to be drama.” It’s very different when you’re working on a book, because the only person I really had to please was myself."

"This is my twelfth and last book signing, and I still get nervous every time I go out there because there’s always a chance that I could disappoint somebody and I don’t want to do that. My heart pounds every single time I’m about to walk down and meet everybody and I’m so sad that it’s over."

"When I was 18, the show first started. I kinda had really a choice, to…you know…deny what I think was pretty much obvious or to be honest. And I’m glad I did because it seems to have helped a lot of people."

"I think sometimes not so great things are praised, and I always feel like someday we’re going to get over that. We’re going to stop putting people on a pedestal that shouldn’t be."