I think there's a kind of elegance to it, to work within that framework where what you don't see is often more enticing.

TV writing is for people who hate being alone more than they hate writing.

The show is not a history lesson or intellectual exploration. It is entertainment based on tension, irony and storytelling that is closely related to today’s life.

You don't drink and smoke that much, and womanize that much, unless you really want to be punished, I think.

It took seven years from the time I wrote Mad Men until it finally got on the screen. I lived every day with that script as if it were going to happen tomorrow. That’s the faith you have to have.

Seeing movie people trying to get into TV now who don't understand that is very interesting.

Hate is more interesting than love.

Opinions can't be inaccurate.

I'm very supportive of creative people being paid for the work that they do.

I'm in the entertainment business, where you're only as good as your last show.

If you've ever had somebody try to sell you something - people who can sell, they really are not manipulating you. They are selling themselves.

Live free or die.

If the emotions are free the intellect will look after itself

Some positive thinkers get consistent powerful results almost deserving of a scientific formula

the past is a liarfull of promises it can't keepbut like a foolish first loveyou keep going back to it

I want to go beyond the restrictions of language, religion and caste, and music is the only thing that allows me to do that.

The only thing that matters is what you do now, here.

As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.

To retaliate against the relatives of the co-religionists of the wrong-doer is a cowardly act.

If I'm going to die, I want to still be me

If you look at how many thousands and thousands of pages, Web pages, are being added to the Internet every day, it's the fastest growing organism in human history for communications.