Well, you know, what's better? To play a character who stays stuck in the same baggage year after year, or to play a character who gets beyond that and goes to a new level?

The fact that maybe I had some success playing G'Kar doesn't guarantee me three years later that I can still do it, so I have to keep my senses alive and still be working on it.

It's one of those things; you just get a very nice stroke from being included in the next thing.

It's just a logical guess that they are very very wise to put someone from the old series in it, and if you had to choose, it would be a very difficult decision.

Not that I wouldn't have been equally happy to see the old buddies and see it all start up again that way. But this was more of a work situation, and a very good one.

You're only as good as you are now - not as good as you were before.

Sub-consciousness is extremely selfish, it will do anything to keep you safe and main in a comfort zone

Grace grows best in winter.

Guys can't tell girls what to do. That's an unspoken rule. Learn that now and you'll be way ahead of the game.

After writing each novel, I would spend days poring over suggestions from my editor.

When you're making a television show, it's about the story and arc of the show rather than any particular episode or director.

The generality of men have, like plants, latent properties, which chance brings to light.

Victorian society was homogeneous without being homogenized. It was, to paraphrase the epigram about Parliament, a society of extreme eccentrics who agreed so well that they could afford to differ.

Most people who work in prison earn money through contraband.

I try to make the set as relaxed and fun and stress-free as humanly possible, while still having control over things. It's usually tension that hurts a performance or makes it seem self-conscious.

In Washington, one man could do what ten of them do. Things kinder run themselves, anyhow.