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

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.

I never thought of myself as a writer.

For me, I'm happy to succeed on any network.

Dreams are manifestation of the reality.

My tomb shall be in a spot where the north wind may scatter roses over it.

Dark night of the soul, ” said Jesus, “Happens to everybody sooner or later.

If you're looking to be loved for a part, it's great and enticing to be adorable in a romantic comedy. But then, as an actor, you get stuck.

The desperate hope that the patient will be healed... That's the last treatment.

You've just got to focus on excellence and try not to be distracted by the news and the rumors and the absurdities of the stories that were coming out.

You jump on a bike and start peddling. You fall down and you get up again. I've always been a 'learn by doing' kind of guy.

Only in America could a refugee girl from Central Europe become secretary of state.

I'm often very relaxed when I'm on the wire.

In accepting the Gift you Honor the Giver