My feeling has always been if you entertain people, they give you permission to do more on a thematic or character level.

Let's not forget how beautiful simply washing dishes can be.

In a book you can really talk about ideas and themes and characters in a deeper way than you can even on the screen.

Some roads you shouldn't go down. Because maps used to say there were dragons here. Now they don't. But that don't mean the dragons aren't there.

There's still nothing like a book to really make you feel like you've disappeared into a world.

There's only one note you ever get in broadcast and that's clarity.

If I have to write on an airplane or get up early to write or write late, you just gotta sit down. When you have the time, you have to be able to do it.

It's good to be unexpected with it.

In the TV business, you've got to write fast, and someone will tell you, "Can you rewrite this episode before... 6 p.m.?" So that's when you rewrite it. You can't wait for the muse to show up.

In this way he used her as the North Star on a journey where you always want to go south. It was helpful, aligning himself in this way. It gave him something to tune to, like a violin to a piano.

Art exists not inside the piece itself, but inside the mind of the viewer.

Step out in faith to claim a blessed life.

A great man is a torch in the darkness, a beacon in superstition's night, an inspiration and a prophecy.

Every head should be cultivated.

When I watch Mad Men and I see the patronising attitudes to women that are so shocking for all of us to watch now, I feel that I've lived and see the same evolution in this regard around disability.

Drinking is another way of thinking, another way of living. It gives you two lives instead of one.

Speaking to the subject is the most overrated thing in journalism.

If there is a God, I want to see Him, not only His energy or His light, but Him.

The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.

When suave politeness, tempering bigot zeal, corrected 'I believe' to 'one does feel'.

Sure, it's simple, writing for kids... Just as simple as bringing them up.