I'm very supportive of creative people being paid for the work that they do.

TV writing is for people who hate being alone more than they hate writing.

The show is not a history lesson or intellectual exploration. It is entertainment based on tension, irony and storytelling that is closely related to today’s life.

You don't drink and smoke that much, and womanize that much, unless you really want to be punished, I think.

It took seven years from the time I wrote Mad Men until it finally got on the screen. I lived every day with that script as if it were going to happen tomorrow. That’s the faith you have to have.

Seeing movie people trying to get into TV now who don't understand that is very interesting.

Hate is more interesting than love.

Opinions can't be inaccurate.

I'm in the entertainment business, where you're only as good as your last show.

If you've ever had somebody try to sell you something - people who can sell, they really are not manipulating you. They are selling themselves.

It's an ugly thing to see ambition and to see people satisfying themselves.

Be the light of peace to drive away the darkness of hatred.

My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for the treasures of India.

I've been a very lucky actor.

Whatever happens in the world is real, what one thinks should have happened is projection. We suffer more from our fictitious illusion and expectations of reality.

If God was dead, how could I feel this bad?

I'm just the librarian. I can only give you the books. I can't give you the answers.

Love makes the greatest pleasures and most sensitive misfortunes of life.

Television doesn't want to admit it has those dreadful roach ads on anyway.

End is a gloomy word.

In terms of addiction, there is nothing more powerful than men's toys.