All human stories are interesting. You don't put a kid in a show because you need a device. They have a story, too.

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.

...Okay... probably now you have read all my books up to now..., you have check out everything what I have and you are asking what more???Check out horror and try to understand it!

I've always had a great respect for the picture business. It's been good to me

The Cat on your hearthstone to this day presages, By solemnly sneezing, the coming of rain!

You are a principal work, a fragment of [Goddess herself], you have in yourself a part of [her]. Why then are you ignorant of your high birth?

A frog in love would not be enchanted to learn that her beloved had turned into Prince Charming.

I am pleased to inform you of the decision of the Government of the Republic of Iraq to allow the return of the United Nations weapons inspectors to Iraq without conditions.

Tolstoy's definition of art is the inverse of the truth; the task of art is to transform not perception into feeling, but feeling into perception.

When we grow careless of keeping our souls, then God recovers our taste of good things again by sharp crosses.

There's this great fantasy of going to work, every day, and getting to play out what people think my life is, as a successful actor.

In proportion to its power, Protestantism has been as persecuting as Catholicism.