I'm a very early riser, and so I like to get up and try hard to write before the day even really gets started. Just me and a pot of coffee -I find I can get a lot done that way.

There is no more moving a professional relationship than that between a law clerk and a Supreme Court justice. As a place to work, the court is unique in its intimacy and intensity.

Success comes to the man who grits his teeth, squares his jaw and says, "There is a way for me and, by jingo, I'll find it".

I'm lucky, I guess. I only really need five or so hours of sleep.

Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild.

The ultimate form of our technological achievement will be identical to the beginning state of this nature.

The Shooting Star CharmTo Be Lucky in Love, You Must First Believe in Miracles

When I work on a piece I always think if there is an abundance of male characters which one could we change to a woman or a minority character.

I do what I can do when I can do it.

In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!

I feel overwhelmingly grateful to them, but I don't know what to do with their invisible gifts.

True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.

I've got a quote for you, a good quote to describe Television...In madness there is order.