My court skills may have atrophied.

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.

You put the thing that does the killing between your teeth, but you never give it the power to kill you

Tears are the natural penalties of pleasure. It is a law that we should pay for all that we enjoy.

The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction.

I had a mother who was very developed psychically and spiritually. She was, in a way, an opposite of my father, a complete liberal, interested in woman's liberation before it was the fashion.

If the world does not shine brightly, even just the physical, sensual perception after meditation, you have not meditated. You have sat and thought of things that were not real.

No man is greater than his prayer life.

Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.

Romantic dramas? I love The Notebook. Titanic was great. Classic.

North Americans do not understand that you do not throw down human rights like bombs on the Iraqis.

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action.