I'm sorry, but chick fights are sexy. If you don't think so, you're either an uptight woman or a lying man.

As a writer, as a storyteller, you have to have your emotions close, and the older I've gotten, the less I've worried about not displaying emotions.

I don't know when I made that active decision to be a writer or to try to write, but I know I always liked storytelling.

When it comes to fighting for freedom, those who are willing to fight should not be limited by our bigotry. Only rewarded with our gratitude.

Facts tend to take the punch out of a good hate rant and are therefore left best unsaid.

For every horrific event, something beautiful happens.

My kids will find me walking around the house talking to myself and think I'm going crazy. I like to read the scripts out loud and really get the rhythm for the dialogue.

There's something very special about knowing what you want to do and knowing the story you want to tell, but finding it together.

With fear of stating the obvious: Freedom belongs to 'We the People,' not 'They the Politicians.'

Whatever you do, whether you're doing a television drama or a romantic comedy, you want to be relevant, to some degree.

I think I'm an overly emotional person. I feel a lot, but I don't believe that's unique to me or that's how I am able to do the things I do.

We do not have control over what happens to us. But we have the courage to conquer.

Right is right, and wrong is wrong, in small things as well as in big things.

I think some people think I'm a smarty-pants. Some people think I'm intense, some people think I'm super-esoteric and nuts.

We don't forgive people because they deserve it. We forgive them because they need it--because we need it.

Don't search for inspiration when you have a task to do; Just start your work and you will see that it will soon find you.

Speaking as a builder, if you start something, you must have a vision of the thing which arises from your instinct about preserving and enhancing what is there.

What praise is implied in the simple epithet useful! What reproach in the contrary.

Free will is located in or near the anterior cingulate sulcus.

I never wanted to be a dancer. It's true! I wanted to be a shortstop for the Pittsburgh Pirates.

I would get rid of the Department of Education. I would get rid of the state departments of education and let the local people control the schools.