I was raised Jewish and bar mitzvahed.

We are breaking new ground in the territory of dumb with Shooting Fish. Dumb, but in good taste. Silly, but not ridiculous.

I loved being in Bombay. It was a pretty thrilling place to walk around and explore.

Once you start working with a particular actor, that actor becomes very present in your mind as your mind as you're writing subsequent episodes.

When we come in contact with our true self, we stop trying to be someone else. We fall in love with it and embrace it with all its flaws :-)

If they would rather die, . . . they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.

I've been pushed down many flights of stairs in my time, but I always manage to find an elevator

Duets are not about individual skill but about the relationship between the two players.

Unlike most major American cities, Honolulu is geographically insulated from the rest of the country. When disaster strikes we cannot call on neighboring states for assistance.

In my books, I never portray violence as a reasonable solution to a problem. If the lead characters in the story are driven to it, it's at the extreme end of their experience.

I would like to spend the rest of my days in a place so silent–and working at a pace so slow–that I would be able to hear myself living.

God is never late, but rarely early.

In viewing the scheme of redemption, I seem like one viewing a vast and complicated machine of exquisite contrivance; what I comprehend of it is wonderful, what I do not, is, perhaps, more so still.

The nation ought to have a tax system which looks like someone designed it on purpose.