People do things with terrible motivations and those motivations are selfish and self-interested and financially driven.

The best shows are always the ones that are very, very low-concept and just about great characters.

If the doors aren't open, just kick them in and keep walking.

Sometimes you've got to just commit to the idea and press forward and trust that you made the right decision.

You can't just sit around in leopard-print slippers and drink champagne all day and think everything's gonna work out somehow.

I stopped using Twitter for a while just because I got sick of it and I started using it again, but I don't check the "mentions."

You really don't settle on an idea until you're really sure it's the best idea. Then once you settle on it you commit to it entirely. That was always the plan.

I got a lot of texts from friends and emails from friends and most of them were just pure jealousy.

You should be nice to people because it's better to be nice to people than mean to people, not because you think there's something in it for you.

I think if you're too concerned with being cool or hip or liked, you can't really make good TV because sincerity and coolness are opposites.

I would far rather add a character who generates strong feelings than someone who just kind of floats along, generating medium-warmth smiles of gentle affirmation.

One shouldn't be afraid of the humans. Well, I am not afraid of the humans, but of what is inhuman in them.

Either you will be you or you will not be at all.

When you love, the whole universe loves you back.

That's the best way to cross the Atlantic.

we will encourage more Americans to study in Muslim communities

No matter how big you are in the business, at the end of the day it's still work.

We roared. We were one big animal throat, roaring.

Ending mass surveillance of private phone calls under the Patriot Act is a historic victory for the rights of every citizen. Yet while we have reformed this one program, many others remain.

America deserves common sense immigration reform that reflects our interests and our values as Americans.

It's easy to get buried in the past when you try to make a good thing last.