Clint Eastwood is aging beautifully. But someone like Burt Reynolds and others are practically destroying their faces in the amount of work they have.

Even though shows like NYPD Blue are soaps in my opinion, but they're individualized to an extent that you can still follow what's going on if you miss a week.

Ultimately the Emmys are a popularity contest.

The West Wing seems to be feeding the myth about how presidential politics are.

Networks don't want a show with a continuing story. There's no backend potential.

A show like Knots or any other show that can be called a soap opera does terribly in syndication because if you're a viewer and you miss a week you don't know what's going on.

It worked well because Don Murray didn't want to be on Knots anymore.

The business is built on slowing or even stopping the aging process.

I try to watch only real things, which basically amounts to C-Span for me. I like real people in real situations. I learn from that.

If you watch Cheers, in 12 years they didn't age a day.

I'm an Irish-American, and I grew up in an Irish-American neighborhood.

There is no beauty in sadness. No honor in suffering. No growth in fear. No relief in hate. It’s just a waste of perfectly good happiness.

Without hardships, how could we know hope?

Well-being is not the goal

When you are a mother you are never really alone in your thoughts ... A mother has to think twice once for herself and once for her child.

The strongest bank in the United States will last only so long as the people will have sufficient confidence in it to keep their money there.

We have always learned about life by dramatising our questions.

What's the use of inventing a better system as long as there just aren't enough folks with sense to go around?

My family fulfills me.

I often feel like books find us for reasons, and we read them when we need them the most.

A chrysanthemum by any other name would be easier to spell.