The guy who sits at the keyboard and types is so much smarter than I am. I think I got into writing so that I could spend as much time with that guy as possible.

I think when you do a season of television you go into it going I'd like the season premiere needs to be amazing. The season finale needs to be amazing.

Probably the biggest challenge is actors, no matter how talented the actor is they don't have the capability of being in more than one place than one particular time, which is very vexing.

I love doing meta-humor, as long as it doesn't become too distracting and it's subtle.

Time away from thinking about something is as valuable - perhaps even more so - than directly thinking about it.

Your subconscious is always working in the background, unlocking things and solving problems.

Do what you love and you'll always love what you do. I've found that that's true most of the time.

The world's an angry place these days. Let's just not take it out on each other.

At some point if you're a professional writer, no matter what, it always comes down to you staring at the blank page by yourself.

There should be nothing I can't live without.

At the end of the day, I think the only way to do the kind of job a writer does is push everything aside and just ultimately sit down and do the work.

O Lord, grant me the grace of endurance, in the race of life.

Even amazing states of bliss, peace, clarity and spaciousness have nothing to do with awakening as these are just experiences coming and going in the impersonal awareness that you are.

Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem.

My bar for being successful is being able to do movies that really mean something to me and being able to make a living off of that.

In consigning Elian back to slavery without a hearing, this administration is setting back the cause of freedom -- in this country and in Cuba.

I grew up in this medical atmosphere, and thought I wanted to be a doctor. I was a hippie, didn't have a lot of goals.

I had always loved beautiful and artistic things, though before leaving America I had had very little chance of seeing any.

Experience has two things to teach. The first is that we must correct a great deal and the second, that we must not correct too much.

Might was the measure of right.

To destroy is still the strongest instinct of our nature.