The thing about 'Gilmore Girls' is that it's such a specific voice, and I lived with it for so long before it got on the air It's a very specific rhythm and a very specific banter.

I like a certain style of show, I like a certain pace, I like a rhythm, I like a lot of comedy in with my drama.

People have nannies and big cars, and they want to go to Maui for Christmas. When there are those kind of stakes involved, people get ruthless.

Life doesn't tend to fix things or wrap them up in bows.

To me, crazy is not someone who has a creative vision and will fight for it.

When you write for a show that's not yours, your job is to hear the voices of the characters and write as best you can for those voices.

Every pilot I've ever written, I've fallen deeply and madly in love with. It's the only way I work.

TV is all about speed. TV is fast and furious. It's gunslinger territory.

These television shows that have 14 shots of somebody looking at each other with the wind blowing through their hair drive me insane.

If we based everything in Hollywood on who was a nice guy, holy moly, we would have no movies. No actors would work. This is not an industry that is ruled by kindness and generosity.

The whole world is out of time!

Much of your happiness and joy in life will come from your ability to get along with people –but more importantly your decision to walk in love every day.

Ecstasy..."When you increase your ability to create ecstasy out of those things found in everyday life, all of your ecstatic sensual experiences grow deeper.

It's okay to be a fat man. It's prestige and power and all of that. But fat women are seen as just lazy and stupid and having no self-control.

Some people say we're (Coldplay) talented and some say we're the worst thing ever to happen to music, and it's a bit confusing being in the middle of that.

To appear unambitious amongst the ambitious is to invite loathing or fear. To be in the game, but not playing with intent to win, is to be the enemy.

All writers are thieves; theft is a necessary tool of the trade.

We must always remember that the Chinese revolution was not a peasant's revolution, but one of the extreme Right.

I think it's a human tendency that's been around for a while to try to be as good as possible to prove your worth.

Yes... well, I used to have a pilot's license.