There's no greater bliss in life than when the plumber eventually comes to unblock your drains. No writer can give that sort of pleasure.

The facts of life are to the biographer what the text of a novel is to the critic.

Sometimes, well, all the time, I can't think of what to say because I'm so dumb and stuff, and then maybe I think of it like five days later.

I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.

With showrunning, the more successful you get, the more you're pulled away from the writing.

if you get married they think you're finished and if you are without a woman they think you're incomplete.

I love pilates and yoga but don't do them regularly.

We are the makers of our own state and...individuals who realize the fact need not, ought not, to wait for collective action.

Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey.

If you haven't failed yet, you haven't tried anything.

If you had all the world's information directly attached to your brain, or an artificial brain that was smarter than your brain, you'd be better off.

Nothing else is as fulfilling as playing a part in which you are able to have a significant say in the creative process all the way through. How many actors get to do that? It's extremely rare.