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.

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.

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.

For me, I'm happy to succeed on any network.

If the rest of your brain were conscious, it would probably regard you as the pointy-haired boss from Dilbert

A mother's love is more beautiful than any fresh flower.

I don't think it's good to constantly talk about your own weight and the fact that you look fat in jeans.

You can keep it a secret.... But secrets have their own weight, and it can be a very heavy one.

Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary.

None of us kids had a middle name. We were lucky we had any name at all. By the time my mother got around to naming one, there was another on the way.

People just try to put you in a box and I don't see myself in any particular box. I'm making my own box. There's no way I would be able to make the music I'm making without dancing.

I think architecture could be understood as the construction of realities, or the construction of worlds.

There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften. [Lat., Nullus dolor est quem non longinquitas temporis minuat ac molliat.]

Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about things.