My first real showbiz job was on a Nickelodeon show called 'Hey, Dude.' That was my first real paid scriptwriting job.

No one sees themself as the villain in their story.

I do believe that we’re in a true golden era of television, and I think it started with Hill Street.

I had a great dad and we had a great relationship, but he's still a part of my life.

If you put people in a corner, you see what their character really is.

I'm lucky enough that, in my career, people think that attaching my name to something helps it a little bit.

Over the course of television's history, I think fans have done more to save shows and support them than ruin them.

I can't help but always be thinking about ideas.

Being a showrunner is tough, but it is incredibly rewarding and it is, without a doubt, the best job I've ever had.

She remembered all too well how time had dragged without him, how she had shuffled about feeling waylaid, out of balance. How she could ever cope with his permanent absence?

You're not broken beyond repair there is hope. There is a God who knows all the pain you endure and will heal, protect and rejuvenate you.

These were formative years for me, and many of these experiences have had a profound effect on my life.

A cool breeze stirred my hair at that moment, as the night wind began to come down from the hills, but it felt like a breath from another world.

To my mind the single essential element on which all discoveries will be dependent is human freedom.

I was always fascinated by the fact that you could take paper and ink and create worlds, images, characters. It seemed like magic.

The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.

Art is amoral, whether we accept this or not; it does not take sides. The finest fictions are cold at heart.

Knowledge, which is power, knows no limits, either in its enslavement of creation or in its deference to worldly masters.

We know what we told him, but we don't know what he heard.