For me, I'm happy to succeed on any network.

Chemistry is not anything an executive producer or writer can orchestrate or plan; you just hope for it.

But I do believe that in all my shows, I really enjoy the quirky, the eccentric characters, the ones you don't meet every day.

I gravitate toward the law, I think, certainly more times than not, because it's our best mechanism for legislating human behavior, and morality, and ethics.

We also have issue oriented storylines which are an examination of an issue, be it ethical or social.

When I really have to push and grope and scratch and claw to make a story work, that's a telltale sign that maybe something conceptually isn't right.

In retrospect, I think it's a plus, because now we've been able to go back and spend extra time on each of those episodes and make them better.

Some of my high school teachers did remind me that I had an excellent imagination when it came to making up excuses.

You learn more when things go wrong.

When you create a show, and create characters, these people are like children to you.

I never thought of myself as a writer.

You know you're a hot mess when the only person buying you drinks all night is yourself.

The weak can't bear to face their weaknesses in the presence of our strength.

The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.

Men become old but they never become good.

Nor in the critic let the man be lost.

In Harlem, I got all my black friends. But when I go downtown, I got black, white, Asian, Indian friends. There's no borders, no barriers.

I don't think I'm really in a situation to complain, because I consider myself to be privileged to be doing what I do.

Self-esteem and self-contempt have specific odors; they can be smelled.

Anything in life is possible, if you make it happen.

Confidence is simply that quiet assured feeling you have before you fall flat on your face.