Deadwood was a place created by a series of accidents. A kind of original sin.

Never believe anything you think about yourself as a writer when you're not writing.

And if God were trying to reach out to us, and teach us something about the deepest nature of matter, he might use some drugged-out surfers.

Every man's entitled to hope.

one plus one is two

If you don't change course - if you don't have something waiting for you, even if it's just to occupy you until you turn eighteen, you're not going to make it. You need to make a plan for next year.

Victims blame, managers maintain, and leaders change.

Problems arise in that one has to find a balance between what people need from you and what you need for yourself.

To have a sense of education and ethics is important.

I think that we will come out on top as women, as people of color, as Muslims, as transgender people, as people who are part of the disabled community - I think that we'll come out on top.

I'd rather frame [Clintons] in terms of what I think we need to do going forward.

It was tough when people would say, "Aren't you so excited?" about the new show and I couldn't really say, "Yes, well, I'm going through a divorce right now, too."

They say cowardice is infectious; but then argument is, on the other hand, a great emboldener.

People see dark faces out there, and the perception is that they're African American. They're not us. They're impostors.