For every horrific event, something beautiful happens.

As a writer, as a storyteller, you have to have your emotions close, and the older I've gotten, the less I've worried about not displaying emotions.

I don't know when I made that active decision to be a writer or to try to write, but I know I always liked storytelling.

When it comes to fighting for freedom, those who are willing to fight should not be limited by our bigotry. Only rewarded with our gratitude.

Facts tend to take the punch out of a good hate rant and are therefore left best unsaid.

My kids will find me walking around the house talking to myself and think I'm going crazy. I like to read the scripts out loud and really get the rhythm for the dialogue.

There's something very special about knowing what you want to do and knowing the story you want to tell, but finding it together.

With fear of stating the obvious: Freedom belongs to 'We the People,' not 'They the Politicians.'

Whatever you do, whether you're doing a television drama or a romantic comedy, you want to be relevant, to some degree.

I think I'm an overly emotional person. I feel a lot, but I don't believe that's unique to me or that's how I am able to do the things I do.

I've written films that are violent. I'm not big on sitting and watching violence.

Live each day like it’s your best.

Because of Obama's ill-advised actions, the world has lost American leadership.

Go be the next humblest version of yourself.

My parents always went to rallies and demonstrated against certain things; my generation, we often have a political conscience, but we're not that involved.

Innocence is suffering and the loss of that innocence is something to fear.

My father read 'The New York Times,' my mother did secretarial work, we had a dog, we had a garden, I had a brother.

All of my pleasures are guilty, but that's just the way I'm wired.

When you get to my age, and I'm 66 now, you realize that the world is a madhouse and that most people are operating in fantasy anyway. So once you realise that, it doesn't bother you much.

I wasn't sure how I'd feel about breastfeeding, but quickly realized its brilliance.

There are no authors in my genre. No one is doing what I do.