{"author":"Rob Thomas","author_id":"Rob+Thomas","total_quotes":12,"quotes":[{"text":"Look, this is helping me out quite a bit, but could you just get to the punishment part? We're at the end of World War Two in history, and I can't wait to find out who wins.","author":"Rob Thomas","tags":["high-school","snark","wit"],"id":13573,"author_id":"Rob+Thomas"},{"text":"I also drink Scotch. But I'm not picky. I'll take the victory Scotch, or the Scotch of defeat. Or the rotgut swill.","author":"Rob Thomas","tags":["drinking","humor","veronica-mars"],"id":33784,"author_id":"Rob+Thomas"},{"text":"Reading 'Youth in Revolt' might have ruined my career because suddenly I wanted to abandon all the emotional truth of something and just go out far on a literary limb with completely implausible things that relied completely on voice and humor. And what saved me is realizing that I couldn't do that very well.","author":"Rob Thomas","tags":["truth","youth","reading "],"id":75028,"author_id":"Rob+Thomas"},{"text":"I could not finance a movie on my own. Frankly, I could not even afford to take a year off. I, like most people in America, need to keep making money.","author":"Rob Thomas","tags":["money","america","making money "],"id":151442,"author_id":"Rob+Thomas"},{"text":"It's a noir world. Unfair things happen.","author":"Rob Thomas","tags":["life","veronica-mars","world"],"id":234849,"author_id":"Rob+Thomas"},{"text":"But sometimes the lies we let ourselves believe are for our own good.","author":"Rob Thomas","tags":["delusions","lies","survival","television","veronica-mars"],"id":253245,"author_id":"Rob+Thomas"},{"text":"Sometimes lightning struck twice; sometimes, one person got more than their share of suffering.","author":"Rob Thomas","tags":["suffering","unfairness"],"id":280850,"author_id":"Rob+Thomas"},{"text":"Conan Doyle deluded a century of readers into thinking we're all deductive geniuses.","author":"Rob Thomas","tags":["arthur-conan-doyle","crime","detective","sherlock-holmes","veronica-mars"],"id":313349,"author_id":"Rob+Thomas"},{"text":"This is why you shouldn’t hire your friends. It’s all nice and professional until the insubordination starts. She sighed.","author":"Rob Thomas","tags":["houmor","quotes","veronica-mars","witty"],"id":406397,"author_id":"Rob+Thomas"},{"text":"It's funny: I always, as a high school teacher and particularly as a high school yearbook teacher, because yearbook staffs are 90 percent female, I got to sit in and overhear teenage girl talk for many years. I like teenage girls; I like their drama, their foibles. And I think, 'I'll be good with a teenage daughter!'.","author":"Rob Thomas","tags":["funny","good","daughter "],"id":458764,"author_id":"Rob+Thomas"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":12,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}