Super confident people with no problems and great marriages and great parenting are not good entertainment.

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.

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

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.

As the future ripens in the past, so the past rots in the future --a terrible festival of dead leaves.

My wife is 37 years younger than me. I don't feel the difference.

We could manage to survive without money changers and stockbrokers. We should find it harder to do without miners, steel workers and those who cultivate the land.

I am a proud participant of the Spencer Tracy School of Acting: Know your lines, don't bump into the furniture.

Outperforming the market with low volatility on a consistent basis is an impossibility. I outperformed the market for 30-odd years, but not with low volatility.

Tis never for their wisdom that one loves the wisest...

Revolution is an act of love; we are the children of revolution, born to be rebels. It runs in our blood.

From a distance I became more convinced than ever that Almighty God destined us to become a great people.

Peace will never be entirely secure until men everywhere have learned to conquer poverty without sacrificing liberty or security.

I did not go to art school thinking that I was an artist; I went there mainly doing stage sets for bands. I considered my work more as an applied art for musicians, not as art in and for itself.