I never thought of myself as a writer.

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.

For me, I'm happy to succeed on any network.

With patient persistence, you will conquer any situation.

It doesn't matter if the glass is half full or half empty. I am gonna drink it through this crazy straw.

My plan is to not be leading (worship) at any church until I really feel like I'm supposed to be somewhere else.

I want people to judge me on what we have achieved after five years. I will go back to my home in Bermuda, play some golf and live a healthier life.

I don't mistrust reality, of which I know next to nothing. I mistrust the picture of reality conveyed to us by our senses, which is imperfect and circumscribed.

Cut the umbilical cord to yesterday. Although we can't change history, we change the effect the past has on the future.

Women should have choices, and women should feel good in what they wear.

If I did that, I'd be sticking my head in a moose.

You talk like a drunk man walks: in every direction but where he be headed.

I'm afraid when too many people know too much about you, it actually makes us all a lot more boring because you're afraid to express yourself.