I think if you're too concerned with being cool or hip or liked, you can't really make good TV because sincerity and coolness are opposites.

The best shows are always the ones that are very, very low-concept and just about great characters.

If the doors aren't open, just kick them in and keep walking.

Sometimes you've got to just commit to the idea and press forward and trust that you made the right decision.

You can't just sit around in leopard-print slippers and drink champagne all day and think everything's gonna work out somehow.

I stopped using Twitter for a while just because I got sick of it and I started using it again, but I don't check the "mentions."

You really don't settle on an idea until you're really sure it's the best idea. Then once you settle on it you commit to it entirely. That was always the plan.

I got a lot of texts from friends and emails from friends and most of them were just pure jealousy.

You should be nice to people because it's better to be nice to people than mean to people, not because you think there's something in it for you.

I would far rather add a character who generates strong feelings than someone who just kind of floats along, generating medium-warmth smiles of gentle affirmation.

For storytelling purposes, there has to be conflict, but that doesn't mean the people have to be mean. I've never liked mean-spirited comedy.

You must love and care for yourself because that's when the best comes out.

I'm such an advocate for animal rights and environmental rights.

I had lost faith in biography.

This is like a tribute to them, the people who helped me to get here. The thing that makes me feel good about the whole thing is, the fans voted me here.

Battered Women: sounds delicious. Doesn’t make it right.

If we value all readers, we must value all reading.

A strict belief in fate is the worst of slavery, imposing upon our necks an everlasting lord and tyrant, whom we are to stand in awe of night and day.

It is a fact beyond question that there are two kinds of Christian experience, one of which is an experience of bondage, and the other an experience of liberty.

Spirituality is allowing compassion and love to flourish. When belongness begins, corruption ends.

Things just enter reality through photographs.