The elegance and the quality - the talent is always in the literature. I start with the word and I base everything on that. It doesn't make any difference to me.

I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.

Abortion does not compute with my philosophy.

An Edward Povey hangs in my living room and every day I am reminded of his originality, his beauty, and the eternal promise of his craft.

Execution as punishment is barbaric and unnecessary.

It's not refreshing where there is confusion or any kind of discomfort in a group that has to work that closely together.

Over the course of my career, which is about 40 years, I've visited plenty of prisons and I know what they're like.

I've done a lot of television in life, and I don't remember the last time that I felt so consistently happy [working with Jenji Kohan].

I was caught in a private cycle of sadness and the only conceivable relief I could find was in the telling.

Of course, the young male demographic has always been the target demographic for 'Star Trek,' the men ageing fifteen to about twenty-five or thirty, a very tough market to appeal to.

We are talking about someone who has lived. It must be honored in every respect. The fictional can take any kind of channel - according to the actor's marriage to the character.

Keeping her in her roots of greenness.

...you belong here, and it’s time you realize it. No one put a Scarlet A on your chest. This church is for human beings, not saints and angels.

Nothing shocks our moral feelings so deeply as cruelty does. We can forgive every other crime, but not cruelty. The reason for this is that it is the very opposite of compassion.

I love English girls! I adore all their different accents. Who knows, I could find a British girlfriend on my travels!

We all have our fictions, little lies we tell ourselves to keep going from one day to the next.

It's much less romantic in that you have to go to www.cia.gov and click "Apply Now." For me it was much more clandestine.

The abuse of the Earth is the ecological crisis.

I am unpacking my library. Yes I am. The books are not yet on the shelves, not yet touched by the mild boredom of order.

Religion is only literature, but luckily literature is not only religion.

We are apt to be very pert at censuring others, where we will not endure advice.