I don't think it's that strange that a show has sort of a bumpy beginning. It's just part and parcel of the process.

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.

Had an amazing weekend hanging with my pals.

Proclaim not all though knowest, or all though owest.

Science is not about consensus, and consensus is not science.

I'm not one to sit around and be satisfied about something. I can always get better.

When I say it doesn't make much difference, I mean in terms of the importance of the piece of literature.

All those [events in history] were such dramas as we see now, only with different actors.

I was always a performing arts kid in general - but I felt like my ultimate goal was to be an actress and be in films.

I'm just worried about the unintended consequences of the laws.

How we live is so different from how we ought to live that he who studies what ought to be done rather than what is done will learn the way to his downfall rather than to his preservation.

Wasting time is something that people do or feel all over the world, not just in Italy.