I've never really told jokes. I'm not good at it.

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.

Even thought our problems had driven us up there, it was as if they had somehow, like Daleks, been unable to climb the stairs.

The bubble had subsided, leaving only a tiny scar, but the irrational fear of water never quite left her. I never allowed her to forget, not for a moment.

I don't care if you broke, you grew up broke... you grew up rich. You only get 24hrs in a day! We all only get 24 hours in a day. It's what we do with it that makes the difference!

There are people in this administration who say they don't care if the UN sinks under the East river, and other crude things.

The sphere that is deepest, most unexplored, and most unfathomable, the wonder and glory of God's thought and hand, is our own soul!

Once you subscribe to an ideological dogma as a solution to certain grievances, it then frames your mindset.

It is a popular delusion that the government wastes vast amounts of money through inefficiency and sloth. Enormous effort and elaborate planning are required to waste this much money.

I never read anything concerning my work. I feel that criticism is a letter to the public which the author, since it is not directed to him, does not have to open and read.

The gift, to be true, must be the flowing of the giver unto me, correspondent to my flowing unto him.

Never apologize on stage. Most people never notice when you make a mistake or if you are having a bad show.