I never wanted to show up and just say, "Okay, what are we doing today? Let's wing it!"

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.

The old-fashioned sins of reading is the only sense that matters.

People are lucky and unlucky ... according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.

You need fighters like me to battle, because frankly The New York Times and the Washington Post are not going to fight the fights that I do.

I think the Internet was the saving grace for Public Enemy. Before that, travelling the world saved Public Enemy.

To the ego, the present moment hardly exists. Only past and future are considered important.

I'd walk a million miles to give her what she needs. But she would walk a million more to do what she believes.

Would the world ever have been made if its maker had been afraid of making trouble?Making life means making trouble. There’s only one way of escaping trouble; and that’s killing things.

Late night television is ready for someone like me... standards have gone to an all-time low.

My dad told me when I went into high school, 'It's not what you do when you walk in the door that matters. It's what you do when you walk out.' That's when you've made a lasting impression.

I loved thee beautiful and kind, And plighted an eternal vow; So altered are thy face and mind, t'were perjury to love thee now!