No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare, you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare.""And what is that nightmare, Craig?""Life.

What do you call a slap that's waiting an inch away from your cheek refusing to back away? A caress

Everywhere is home, let is go home

The whole rise of new adult contemporary music and smooth jazz was a nice surprise.

I work for posterity, these things requiring ages for their accomplishment.

I have a younger brother.

Emotions are captive to reality

In times of shrinking expectations,... everyone feels like a victim and pushes away outsiders to defend his own corner.

Who knows but we may count among our intellectual chickens Like them an Earl of Thackeray and p'raps a Duke of Dickens

One thing that is true in TV is that you do hire the directors. As the writer, it's very different than in features, where you feel like, "If I want this to be this way, I better direct it."