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.

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

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.

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

Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster than we speak. Probably so we can think twice.

Faith is the angelic messenger between the soul and the Lord Jesus in glory.

Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

Long before I became 'rich and famous' I just sat round drinking wine and staring at the walls.

A great deal of humility is necessary in the process of self-discovery. Humility is the ability to accept what and who you are at this moment.

There are few more powerful tools for promoting stability than the institution of marriage.

I grew up in Dolton, just south of Chicago, about a 20-minute drive from old Comiskey Park.

The best player EVER (Leo Messi) without a shadow, if you didn't think/know already.

And if a man reads very hard, as the old anecdote reminds us, he will have little time for thought.

Your initiations are worthwhile.