But Steven Bochco was smart; he knew that viewers were smart.

Chemistry is not anything an executive producer or writer can orchestrate or plan; you just hope for it.

But I do believe that in all my shows, I really enjoy the quirky, the eccentric characters, the ones you don't meet every day.

I gravitate toward the law, I think, certainly more times than not, because it's our best mechanism for legislating human behavior, and morality, and ethics.

We also have issue oriented storylines which are an examination of an issue, be it ethical or social.

When I really have to push and grope and scratch and claw to make a story work, that's a telltale sign that maybe something conceptually isn't right.

In retrospect, I think it's a plus, because now we've been able to go back and spend extra time on each of those episodes and make them better.

Some of my high school teachers did remind me that I had an excellent imagination when it came to making up excuses.

You learn more when things go wrong.

When you create a show, and create characters, these people are like children to you.

I never thought of myself as a writer.

Go for it, while you can. I know you have it in you. And I can't promise you'll get everything you want, but I can promise nothing will change if you don't try.

As each day comes to us refreshed and anew, so does my gratitude renew itself daily. The breaking of the sun over the horizon is my grateful heart dawning upon a blessed world. ~Terri Guillemets

Although I could lament in the language and feelings of David for Absalom, I am constrained to say, peace to his manes. Let us weep for the living, and not for the dead.

Photography is a way of putting distance between myself and the work which sometimes helps me to see more clearly what it is that I have made.

Conversation is good - you might not agree with everyone, but at least it gives you a chance to contemplate someone else's ideas.

You can't talk of the dangers of snake poisoning and not mention snakes.

You look at women like Lena Dunham, you look at how women are kind of crafting their own space on the screen. I want to add to that.

My primary consultant is myself.

Apparently I'm introspective... levelheaded... but at the same time, absolutely insane.

Wars come and wars go but the world does not change: it will always forget an indebtedness which it thinks it expedient not to remember.