I actually believe he is the new Cilla Black.

I believe as a born-again Christian that once you've had a chance to drink from the well, it becomes your responsibility to replenish the well.

"Homicide: Life on the Street" is the best material I've had the chance to do.

I would never do another sitcom. It was so boring I wanted to pull my fingernails off.

I've been sober now for a couple of years and I'm taking my sobriety very seriously - one day at a time and I am moving forward in my career.

If you ask me if I think I will be sober in 24 hours time I can say yes, but in two years I can't tell you. I could be dead.

I prefer to say that I am a beautiful person. But the addict is a horrible person.

Where I am right now I'm pretty good at. You know, I understand that there's a problem. I'm addressing it. I'm doing the work that I have to do.

It's difficult to talk about, you know, my inadequacies, my inability to stay sober when I'm a relatively bright man and I've had a lot of great blessings and a lot of great opportunities.

The addict will screw you over and lie to you and do all kinds of things.

I'd just turned 50, weighed 285, and my doctor had read me the riot act about my health.

Stop making excuses and start making history.

Be the thermostat in your community, the one who makes a change. Not the thermometer who, just watches

Style is as much under the words as in the words. It is as much the soul as it is the flesh of a work.

Dead he is not, but departed, for the artist never dies.

The only thing not worth destroying is science. That would be useless. Science is unchangeable, and if you destroyed it today, it would rise up again the same as before.

I write sets of books, but I've also written a lot of orphans.

Friendship is infinitely better than kindness.

We rich men count our felicity and happiness to lie in these superfluities, and not in those necessary things.

When you look at "American Crime" and you have the character Terri LaCroix is a pharmaceutical executive - why does that character always have to be white?

To get along with me, don't increase my tension.