I want to explore different topics and present them in slightly different ways.

As a writer, as a storyteller, you have to have your emotions close, and the older I've gotten, the less I've worried about not displaying emotions.

I don't know when I made that active decision to be a writer or to try to write, but I know I always liked storytelling.

When it comes to fighting for freedom, those who are willing to fight should not be limited by our bigotry. Only rewarded with our gratitude.

Facts tend to take the punch out of a good hate rant and are therefore left best unsaid.

For every horrific event, something beautiful happens.

My kids will find me walking around the house talking to myself and think I'm going crazy. I like to read the scripts out loud and really get the rhythm for the dialogue.

There's something very special about knowing what you want to do and knowing the story you want to tell, but finding it together.

With fear of stating the obvious: Freedom belongs to 'We the People,' not 'They the Politicians.'

Whatever you do, whether you're doing a television drama or a romantic comedy, you want to be relevant, to some degree.

I think I'm an overly emotional person. I feel a lot, but I don't believe that's unique to me or that's how I am able to do the things I do.

Set forth no limits, keep in mind that your potential is boundless.

I thought then that you were the bravest girl I’d ever met, and nothing that’s happened since has changed my mind.

Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.

Curiously, once technology gets boring, the social effects get interesting.

I would like to play Broadway!

A man who has drank his drinks cold at the same expense for one week can never be presented with them warm again.

My purpose is to make my narrative as truthful as possible.

Communism is the flower of idleness.

There is so much goodness in real life- do let us keep it out of our books.

Adoption is rewarding. But the process, as we have already detailed in some particulars, can be expensive, exhausting, and hard to sustain on a dream, much less a whim.