There's really no way of ever knowing how the audience is going to respond to any episode or change.

You don't know what's happening the next moment, in anybody's life, and you just have to pick up and move on and try to learn from the experience and make the best of it.

A show has to change and evolve. Sometimes the change is painful, but that doesn't mean it's not good or correct.

There is no chance, no fate, no destiny that can circumvent, or hinder, or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.

People pray in one direction but they walk in a different direction, and direction always determines where we end up.

I always write the script by myself.

It isn't how much time you spend somewhere that makes it memorable: it's how you spend the time.

The White House is giving George W. Bush intelligence briefings. You know? some of these jokes just write themselves.

I found myself getting more publicly shy when the gala events and big crowds started. Some people embrace it. To me, it's not worth enough to risk my private life being public.

When I've got massive projects to be getting on with, I find myself open to distractions, particularly when deadlines are involved.

The reason I never want a book to end is that I start to feel like the characters are my friends. I'll miss them when they're gone.

The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity.

The most chaste woman may be the most voluptuous, if she truly loves.