TV writing is for people who hate being alone more than they hate writing.

The show is not a history lesson or intellectual exploration. It is entertainment based on tension, irony and storytelling that is closely related to today’s life.

You don't drink and smoke that much, and womanize that much, unless you really want to be punished, I think.

It took seven years from the time I wrote Mad Men until it finally got on the screen. I lived every day with that script as if it were going to happen tomorrow. That’s the faith you have to have.

Seeing movie people trying to get into TV now who don't understand that is very interesting.

Hate is more interesting than love.

Opinions can't be inaccurate.

I'm very supportive of creative people being paid for the work that they do.

I'm in the entertainment business, where you're only as good as your last show.

If you've ever had somebody try to sell you something - people who can sell, they really are not manipulating you. They are selling themselves.

It's an ugly thing to see ambition and to see people satisfying themselves.

The soul is healed by being with children.

The quality of your relationships and the role they play in your life will influence who you will become.

Her soft trailing fingers would continue to attempt a connection that I refused to allow

On day one, the Church wasn't for church people because there weren't any church people.

There was no private property in the past. Everything was communal property. In the Indian community where I was born, everything belonged to the community. This way of life is more equitable.

President [Ronald] Reagan told me he would negotiate and negotiate and negotiate with the Soviets, and I believed him.

To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it. [Lat., Dulcis inexpertis cultura potentis amici; Expertus metuit.]

If a man, for private profit, tears at the public news, does so with the impatience of one who thinks he actually owns the news you get, it is against the national interest.

The truth is that good and bad coexist; sour and sweet coexist. They aren't really opposed to each other.

I prefer theatre to television - you get to feel the love.