Michael Patrick King Quotes

Seasons change. So do cities. People come into your life and people go, but it's comforting to know: the ones you love are always in your heart. And if you're very lucky, a plane ride away.

That's the thing about needs. Sometimes when you get them met, you don't need them anymore.

Maybe our mistakes are what make our fate. Without them, what would shape our lives? Perhaps, if we never veered off course, we wouldn't fall in love or have babies or be who we are.

Who's to say where funny stops and 'too far' starts?

The first-time director thing is just another label somebody puts on you.

I'm happiest in an empty church. I love the smell of a church.

The second episode of any new show can be tough. You have about a week to top the well-crafted and polished pilot episode that was written over six months.

My female writers have always been my backbone. I had a writing room of six women for five years so I know what women do. Cultivated by me, by the way!

People wince when something is in bad taste. They laugh when it's funny. If it's too dirty or wrong, they won't laugh. But if it's a big, dirty, smart, funny laugh, they love it.

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Every character when born is a stereotype.

I don't wear a watch. How do I know my time? I find that someone will always tell me.

Nothing else exists when art does.

Here's what happens - you create something in the moment that you feel will be good, and then... people's reactions to it or people referencing it years later, it's a compliment.

People pull away from something if it's not of good taste. People lean into something if it's okay.

I really enjoy women and I totally understand and applaud the diversity that they have in terms of their emotions and intellects and vulnerability and strengths.

When real people fall down in life, they get right back up and keep on walking.