I never went after character payments. I'm pretty much terrible at naming characters, so I usually name them after people I know.

It's a nightmare of editing. That's what I do all day.

By engaging someone for five minutes, you can make them a lifelong fan.

Part of walking the line as showrunner is trying to please people and still be true to what you believe creatively.

Fans can't ruin shows. Only creators can.

In a landscape where a 2.8 [demo rating] keeps you on the air, you can maintain that just by treating your fans with respect.

I am done with the hour-long [true crime] shows: "She was a happy married wife. Everything was perfect. Until the trip to Aruba."

When you're on a staff, it's not your job to write what you think is funny. It's your job to write what the person who created the show thinks is funny.

Until I created my own shows, I had nothing but bad experiences on staffs.

Any time you try to be edgy just for the sake of being edgy, that's the worst way.

The writing is what's most important to me.

Our inner wisdom is persistent, but quiet. It will always whisper, but it will never stop knocking at your door.

I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed.

Now God be praised, I will die in peace.

I've only slept with men I've been married to. How many women can make that claim?

Because I write intuitively and image-by-image and moment-by-moment, my writing has to be powered by feelings and emotions.

Life isn't fair. In never was and never will be.

The leverage Wall Street has to change the world is greater than technology. At a very young age, you're in the room with CEOs, making critical decisions. It should be exciting. It is exciting.

I feel that the work that I have done in the comedy arena, is priceless in terms of what I learned, timing, everything that these incredibly talented performers were generous enough in teaching me.

Artists don't often know much about writing... but they don't bray so much about writing as writers do about art.

My brothers were my peers, but they were not the preeminent male figures in my emotional life.