I would fix other people's lines if they asked me on occasion. The hard part of writing is the architecture of it, getting the story and structuring it. Not the tweaking of lines.

Even though shows like NYPD Blue are soaps in my opinion, but they're individualized to an extent that you can still follow what's going on if you miss a week.

Ultimately the Emmys are a popularity contest.

The West Wing seems to be feeding the myth about how presidential politics are.

Networks don't want a show with a continuing story. There's no backend potential.

A show like Knots or any other show that can be called a soap opera does terribly in syndication because if you're a viewer and you miss a week you don't know what's going on.

It worked well because Don Murray didn't want to be on Knots anymore.

Clint Eastwood is aging beautifully. But someone like Burt Reynolds and others are practically destroying their faces in the amount of work they have.

The business is built on slowing or even stopping the aging process.

I try to watch only real things, which basically amounts to C-Span for me. I like real people in real situations. I learn from that.

If you watch Cheers, in 12 years they didn't age a day.

I reserve the right to not to be addressed...at all

No ale for the girl, Birgit, " Aidan said to the woman. "Do we not have milk?"Regin's face heated. And all the worse, because she would dearly love some milk.

You know a person is teaching the truth when no one debates it." ~ Amunhotep El Bey

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

If I ruled the world, every woman would have a Chanel suit in her wardrobe.

We follow ideas and not men, and rebel against this habit of embodying a principle in a man.

There must always be some pretentiousness about literature, or else no one would take its pains or endure its disappointments.

I believe in maximum flexibility, so I reserve the right to change my position on any subject when the external environment relating to any topic changes too.

The minute you begin to have doubts, the floor under your feet starts to shake.

Novels seem to me to be richer, broader, deeper, more enjoyable than poems.