Vivid images are like a beautiful melody that speaks to you on an emotional level. It bypasses your logic centers and even your intellect and goes to a different part of the brain.

Casting is sort of like looking at paintings. You don't know what you'll like, but you recognize it when you see it.

Film provides an opportunity to marry the power of ideas with the power of images.

Being a good television screenwriter requires an understanding of the way film accelerates the communication of words.

Hill Street Blues might have been the first television show that had a memory. One episode after another was part of a cumulative experience shared by the audience.

When it is perceived that a show has gone awry, the pressure is staggering, and as a writer caught in that storm, it feels like you are being attacked by jackals.

Hill Street Blues gave me an opportunity to work with an ensemble cast of people whose work I admired.

You have to give directors and cinematographers a word blueprint for visuals, but I had to learn that from experience.

If bad taste were a felony, every writer I know would've done prison time.

I think the best work flows out of a collaborative environment.

Television and film are such streamlined story mediums. You can't really meander about, whereas a novel is an interior experience.

Nobody with any real sense of humor *can* write a love story. . . . Shakespeare is the exception that proves the rule. (90-91)

Meditation is a journey from negative-mindset to positive-mindset. It is a means to stay positive and radiate positive energy.

Messages of instant gratification leads to a corrupt society

Our perceptions shape whether challenges are obstacles that block our path to success or important arrows that steer us in the direction we want to go.

My life has become like a bus, and I'm just watching it pass by

I remember, in the winter of our first experiments, just seven years ago, looking on snow with new eyes.

Right as an aspen lefe she gan to quake.

Of all the Gods, Love is the best friend of humankind, the helper and healer of all ills that stand in the way of human happiness.

Paradise is within you, in your state of no-mind. And hell is also within you, in your very mind.

There's no way my love for fame and her love for puppies will ever work out successfully.