I do choose to write for a living - in addition to writing plays. I no longer write sitcoms, and I no longer feel shame.

[Using humor to explore serious issues] disarms people. It's a way in. It's gentle, but at the same time it's subversive, and I like that duality.

I love only the god whose religion is kindness.

TV is chewing gum for the eyes.

When you get some success, you want more. When you get one mountain climbed, you want to climb the next one.

God's Word is the only reliable guideline for living. Following your heart, without the leading of His Word and His Spirit, will lead you to His judgement.

A man were better relate himself to a statue or picture than to suffer his thoughts to pass in smother.

I thought it would be an enormous amount of fun to make a movie that heads out into space, which is something that we had never done before.

Jazz is the continual pulsation of the now.

I think we as Americans know there's a much better alternative than the 17th century practice of burning rocks to power our economy.

Trust is equal parts character and competence... You can look at any leadership failure, and it's always a failure of one or the other.

When you're overwhelmed by your emotion, you listen less and you judge more. This is also the reality of the dogmatic mind.