When it seems you have nothing at all to live for, death is not especially frightening.
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.
So I think a writer should write what he loves, the people he relates to.
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 don't think I could write a straight drama.
You've got to honor your relationship with your audience - that they sit down because they want to be entertained. And that doesn't mean you can't provoke them and antagonize them and challenge them in the course of the entertainment as long as you keep the entertainment part of the equation alive.
It gets harder and harder to succeed and find audiences with the 500-channel universe, the remote control, and people being so trigger happy with that remote control. It just gets harder to get a foothold.
I was probably the one who tattled on the class clown. To get in good with the teachers.
Think to yourself that every day is your last; the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise.
Those who have ruled human destinies, like planets, for thousands of years, were not handsome men.
I grew up with brothers. I love men. Of course it's hard to be a woman in a man's world.