Years passed and I hadn't really done much writing. Other than the fact that I'm constantly developing new shows, writing up proposals and stuff.

Of course, Bronx is also useful as a kind of living personality test. If Bronx likes you, it's a [darn] good sign.

First and foremost, that's what I am, I'm a writer. I can't draw worth a darn. I don't draw, I write.

We had 10 months, sliding schedule to do 52 episodes. After you get over the shock of the size of the number, the job became one of expansion.

I had studied William Shakespeare in Oxford, England and I had this sort of high faluttin' education but I had also worked in comic books. So, I wasn't too proud to work in something like cartoons.

I agreed to keep the cards a secret and asked my grandmother if she believed in magic. She said she did not but that, surprisingly, magic worked even if you did not believe in it.

Pain and guilt tore through him. His soul was bleeding to death. He stood there, waiting to die. How could he not? But such wounds were not fatal.

He also learned to regard each port of call as part of the journey and not as destination. Every voyage begins when you do.

But behind all your stories is always your mother's story, because hers is where yours begins.

I'm not the best of you, but I'm not the worst either.

Theres a great sense of achievement, testosterone, fun, being able to live out your masculinity when you play an action role or an action-adventure or a real tough-guy role.

I discovered, quite early in motherhood, that the longest and most painful deliveries occur when you give birth to stepchildren.

Maybe the impossible is possible when you take everything else away.

I love surprising people with a present or a gift or a stage performance or anything.

The diminution of public virtue is usually attended with that of public happiness, and the public liberty will not long survive the total extinction of morals.