I've done a lot of television in life, and I don't remember the last time that I felt so consistently happy [working with Jenji Kohan].

The elegance and the quality - the talent is always in the literature. I start with the word and I base everything on that. It doesn't make any difference to me.

I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.

Abortion does not compute with my philosophy.

An Edward Povey hangs in my living room and every day I am reminded of his originality, his beauty, and the eternal promise of his craft.

Execution as punishment is barbaric and unnecessary.

It's not refreshing where there is confusion or any kind of discomfort in a group that has to work that closely together.

Over the course of my career, which is about 40 years, I've visited plenty of prisons and I know what they're like.

I was caught in a private cycle of sadness and the only conceivable relief I could find was in the telling.

Of course, the young male demographic has always been the target demographic for 'Star Trek,' the men ageing fifteen to about twenty-five or thirty, a very tough market to appeal to.

We are talking about someone who has lived. It must be honored in every respect. The fictional can take any kind of channel - according to the actor's marriage to the character.

When a person is focused completely on self it is nearly impossible to be mindful of others at the same time. That is a contradiction for healthy communication, networking, and relationship building.

Learn to drink the cup of life as it comes.

People I work with are open to leadership that has a vision, but this vision has to be communicated clearly and persuasively, and always, always with passion.

Poverty is the discoverer of all the arts.

If you're unlucky enough not to have alcoholic parents, it takes you a whole lifetime of intoxication to overcome the dead weight of their virtues.

We love to talk about justice. It's the doing of justice that's hard...I believe it is work we are called to do

People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy.

We got results that would not have been possible without a negotiating partner like Joe Biden.

In my latter years I've decided that there's too much to keep track of when you go into the lying game. That becomes stressful and it's not for me anymore.

Women are the centre of the family. It's the woman who decides what's eaten in the house, when to have the kids vaccinated; everything that has to do with the children's health revolves around her.