As far as casting, I'm there for every single person that's cast. Even if it's one word, I'm there for their auditions.

TV writing is for people who hate being alone more than they hate writing.

The show is not a history lesson or intellectual exploration. It is entertainment based on tension, irony and storytelling that is closely related to today’s life.

You don't drink and smoke that much, and womanize that much, unless you really want to be punished, I think.

It took seven years from the time I wrote Mad Men until it finally got on the screen. I lived every day with that script as if it were going to happen tomorrow. That’s the faith you have to have.

Seeing movie people trying to get into TV now who don't understand that is very interesting.

Hate is more interesting than love.

Opinions can't be inaccurate.

I'm very supportive of creative people being paid for the work that they do.

I'm in the entertainment business, where you're only as good as your last show.

If you've ever had somebody try to sell you something - people who can sell, they really are not manipulating you. They are selling themselves.

It's a true image, born of a false spectacle.

Sometimes animals are more human than people and other times people are more animal than animals

He plays the same game, but for the first time in his life he is truly playing, rather than working, being a human, and this is a vast distinction realized by few.

Recollection, I have found, is usually about half invention...

In family relationships love is really spelled t-i-m-e, time.

I cannot say that I was a particularly diligent student, especially during the lower grades.

It's crazy to say that after three games [without a goal] I was in crisis. I do not care whether I score or not, what matters is that the team win and continue to do so.

The institutions of Churchianity are not Christianity. An institution is a good thing if it is second; immediately an institution recognizes itself it becomes the dominating factor.

The mind grows sicker than the body in contemplation of it's suffering.

You have to be the person you want to be - and start now. If you don't begin the process yourself, you're going to be waiting forever.