The way I personally work is I like to write what I know, what I feel, and also where I am.

Chemistry is not anything an executive producer or writer can orchestrate or plan; you just hope for it.

But I do believe that in all my shows, I really enjoy the quirky, the eccentric characters, the ones you don't meet every day.

I gravitate toward the law, I think, certainly more times than not, because it's our best mechanism for legislating human behavior, and morality, and ethics.

We also have issue oriented storylines which are an examination of an issue, be it ethical or social.

When I really have to push and grope and scratch and claw to make a story work, that's a telltale sign that maybe something conceptually isn't right.

In retrospect, I think it's a plus, because now we've been able to go back and spend extra time on each of those episodes and make them better.

Some of my high school teachers did remind me that I had an excellent imagination when it came to making up excuses.

You learn more when things go wrong.

When you create a show, and create characters, these people are like children to you.

I never thought of myself as a writer.

Life is about cherishing memories, getting lost in moments of beauty, and enjoying profound joy and happiness.

Your mind will take on the character of your most frequent thoughts: souls are dyed by thoughts.

If there are people at once rich and content, be assured that they are content because they know how to be so, not because they are rich

It's not a joke: I really do like being at home.

I'm home a lot. Because I live in Ireland, we can live under the celebrity radar. I might go missing for a whole year.

A key to everything is surrender - to really come before the Lord and say, 'I will literally stay here as long as you want me to stay' or 'God, I will really go anywhere on the earth.'

The city of cats and the city of men exist one inside the other, but they are not the same city.

Work hard, do the best you can, don't ever lose faith in yourself and take no notice of what other people say about you.

What connects two thousand years of genocide? Too much power in too few hands.

The turtle couldn't help us.