A lot of the women I know, that's what they're complaining about either the man in their life or the lack of a man in their life.

Yes, we're trying some new stuff. Some of it might work. Some of it might not. This, of course, is the nature of episodic television. They can't all be gems.

I love the idea of a beautiful neighborhood that represents the very best of American values, but also as a fun backdrop to some darker, deliciously sneaky things going on in people's lives.

I got to have a TV show that really was the talk of the nation for a while there. So I'm a very lucky guy.

I'm just proud that I created something that helped me pay my bills because I was so flat broke. I was borrowing money from my mother to stay afloat, and that was kind of uncomfortable.

I'm excited and terrified to write something new.

There's no one I trust in show business more than Sabrina Wind. She's my eyes and ears when I can't be there. She weighs in on everything, from scripts to sets to advertising.

I created a tone for network television that they hadn't really been seen before. And I have to admit that was really more of an accident. I was just writing the way I write.

I don't know what you mean, but I know that you mean it.(attrib: 'Edward', Appendix 2)

Once you get to naming your laptop, you know that you're really having a deep relationship with it.

I wish that there were more stringent laws to make guns sold anywhere that they're legal harder to get.

Democracy must be our answer to terrorism

The Middle East is gorgeous, but again, politically, I would not want to go there.

There's not a big gun culture in England at all still.

If there be any thing a man might well pray against, that thing is the responsive gratification of some of the devoutest prayers of his youth.

Science makes no claim to infallibility; it leaves that claim to be made by theologians.

It is the mothers not the warriors who create a people and guide their destiny.

If I could have one wish, it would be for people to look at one another with open hearts and minds. Most of all, to look at each other with compassion. No matter who they are.