Even if you go out there and try to make the most vanilla, non-offensive TV show possible, people are going to criticize you for doing that. It's just part of the game. You can't let it get to you.

Journalism and the questions of journalistic ethics, and why certain stories are put on the air, when, how and for what reasons, are big questions in our culture and society.

Criticism is something that you have to take, regardless of what you do.

Having the audience know more than the characters is precisely where you want to be in terms of drama. You can engage them much more when that is the case.

I have always been politically active and vaguely dissatisfied with the state of news, but I wasn't sure why.

As an actor playing a character, I can't come in with my judgement, or else I can't play it honestly. My judgement has to be reserved for later.

I'm so super interested in what it is to stir things up and to listen to people.

I am very interested in asking questions, and I am very interested in being involved in shows that ask people to think and feel.

A sail boat that sails backwards can never see the sun rise.

Believe, believe.

If I don't make it to heaven, at least I know what hell feels like with this heat!

Having these colossal accolades and titles, they get in the way.

God seldom calls us for an easier life, but always calls us to know more of him and drink more deeply of His sustaining grace.

Those who give you a serpent when you ask for a fish, may have nothing but serpents to give.

You can prove anything by mentioning another computer language.

In every adult human there still lives a helpless child who is afraid of aloneness.... This would be so even if there were a possibility for perfect babies and perfect mothers.

I will risk everything to avoid being bored.

Man is the only animal who enjoys the consolation of believing in a next life; all other animals enjoy the consolation of not worrying about it.