We also have issue oriented storylines which are an examination of an issue, be it ethical or social.

Chemistry is not anything an executive producer or writer can orchestrate or plan; you just hope for it.

But I do believe that in all my shows, I really enjoy the quirky, the eccentric characters, the ones you don't meet every day.

I gravitate toward the law, I think, certainly more times than not, because it's our best mechanism for legislating human behavior, and morality, and ethics.

When I really have to push and grope and scratch and claw to make a story work, that's a telltale sign that maybe something conceptually isn't right.

In retrospect, I think it's a plus, because now we've been able to go back and spend extra time on each of those episodes and make them better.

Some of my high school teachers did remind me that I had an excellent imagination when it came to making up excuses.

You learn more when things go wrong.

When you create a show, and create characters, these people are like children to you.

I never thought of myself as a writer.

For me, I'm happy to succeed on any network.

But, luckily, he kept his wits and his purple crayon.

The older you grow, the younger your fears grow!

I've only got forever and forever is fine

I hate that I had to pull out my wallet and buy respect.

T[he rules of writing] require that the episodes in a tale shall be necessary parts of the tale, and shall help to develop it.

America's most dangerous diseases have developed an immunity to politics. We suffer not from a failure of political organization or power, but a failure of love.

In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different- life isn't about finding yourself, it's about creating yourself- a girl should be two things: who and what she wants.

Beauty is merely the Spiritual making itself known sensuously.

Seek always for the best words and the happiest expression you can find.

Information is useless if it is not applied to something important or if you will forget it before you have a chance to apply it.