Seeing movie people trying to get into TV now who don't understand that is very interesting.

TV writing is for people who hate being alone more than they hate writing.

The show is not a history lesson or intellectual exploration. It is entertainment based on tension, irony and storytelling that is closely related to today’s life.

You don't drink and smoke that much, and womanize that much, unless you really want to be punished, I think.

It took seven years from the time I wrote Mad Men until it finally got on the screen. I lived every day with that script as if it were going to happen tomorrow. That’s the faith you have to have.

Hate is more interesting than love.

Opinions can't be inaccurate.

I'm very supportive of creative people being paid for the work that they do.

I'm in the entertainment business, where you're only as good as your last show.

If you've ever had somebody try to sell you something - people who can sell, they really are not manipulating you. They are selling themselves.

It's an ugly thing to see ambition and to see people satisfying themselves.

Almost nothing beautiful or brilliant happens unless a person has thought about it a lot.

When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as an escape.

How do you paint yellow wheat against a yellow sky? You paint it jet black.

Style is the art of getting yourself out of the way, not putting yourself in it.

If all men saw the fair and wise the same men would not have debaters' double strife.

Rapping about a surgery is something that makes sense for me to do.

Raja yoga is the mental practice and incorporates meditation, pranayama, and mudra. What are the benefits of having a raja yoga practice? The benefit is spirituality.

It often strikes me that the actors in high school movies look too old.

All of these years that I have been singing, no one has done a documentary about my music as far as I'm concerned.

Lord, baseball is a worrying thing.