I think the law changes, which is a nice luxury.

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.

I never thought of myself as a writer.

There was nothing special with the way he looked at her but her heart raced with even glance.

Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.

Fifty-eight percent of African- American youth don't have jobs.

What good is the Moon? You can't buy it or sell it.

I don't want to talk about myself, that's for other people to say, so I'm not saying I was so talented.

You must beware of seeing malice behind accidental injury.

Even sometimes our preconceptions of what we think we need is different to actually what we do need, so we've got to be more open and give guys more of a chance.

Any so-called stimulus program is a ruse. The government can increase its spending only by reducing private spending equivalently.

We now had impressive evidence that low protein intake could markedly decrease enzyme activity and prevent dangerous carcinogen binding to DNA.

Film is the greatest teacher because it teaches not only through the brain but through the whole body