I am of the opinion that there is more high-quality television being produced than at any time in the history of television.

The best shows are always the ones that are very, very low-concept and just about great characters.

If the doors aren't open, just kick them in and keep walking.

Sometimes you've got to just commit to the idea and press forward and trust that you made the right decision.

You can't just sit around in leopard-print slippers and drink champagne all day and think everything's gonna work out somehow.

I stopped using Twitter for a while just because I got sick of it and I started using it again, but I don't check the "mentions."

You really don't settle on an idea until you're really sure it's the best idea. Then once you settle on it you commit to it entirely. That was always the plan.

I got a lot of texts from friends and emails from friends and most of them were just pure jealousy.

You should be nice to people because it's better to be nice to people than mean to people, not because you think there's something in it for you.

I think if you're too concerned with being cool or hip or liked, you can't really make good TV because sincerity and coolness are opposites.

I would far rather add a character who generates strong feelings than someone who just kind of floats along, generating medium-warmth smiles of gentle affirmation.

I would rather devote myself to what I always did - trying to heal people. That is my way of healing myself.

If we know ourselves, and know our hearts, we're always home, anywhere.

Eccentricity may be diverting, Mama, but it is out of place in a wife: certainly in my wife!

No day is so bad it can't be fixed with a nap.

One thing that you cant fake is chemistry.

I don't want to be in an art bubble.

The rational man finds that his share of the cost of the wastes he discharges into the commons is less than the cost of purifying his wastes before releasing them.

The goldenrod is yellow, The corn is turning brown, The trees in apple orchards With fruit are bending down.

Everyone says that forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive.

I ran away from St. Louis, and then I ran away from the United States, because of that terror of discrimination.