I think ultimately what makes the show is not the reality but the drama.

To create a situation where each new episode has to start in the exact same place as the previous one, with the actors' hair in the exact same place, seemed crazy.

What you have to get used to as a writer is realizing that most of what you come up with is wrong for the show.

To be fair to ourselves, in almost every original script, the timing is actually worked out down to the minute.

My background is in math and science, and I thrive on complexity, and I think lots of people do. People love puzzles; it's human nature to want to solve puzzles.

You know, it's hard as a writer to lose characters (and actors) you like. You really don't want them to die because you're not going to get to see them anymore.

The rule, I think, is: Do your homework, learn what there is to learn about the real world, and then when you get in the room, forget it all.

A truth that's told with bad intentBeats all the lies you can invent.

The Church is larger than any one nation or any one political scene.

I'm pretty sure there's a lot more to life than being really, really, ridiculously good looking. And I plan on finding out what that is.

The military operation in Lebanon was the most successful military operation in recent Israeli history. Many in Israel don't recognise that.

Human passions unbridled by morality and religion...would break the stronges cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net.

Even though modern life in many ways is nothing short of exhausting, we need to take responsibility for what is necessary to combat the stress and exhaustion of modern life.

I write with a pen and paper. Never on a laptop.

Ageing is a process of exchanging hope for insight

There is a part of me that has to depend on fantasy, because if you can't be somewhat of a fantasy person, then you can't write

Changes in solar activity have influenced what has been called the "conveyor-belt" circulation of the great Atlantic Ocean currents over the past 240 years.