A hero would die for his country, but he'd much rather live for it.

If you can socialize from the privacy of your desk at night in a dark room, you can be a smoother, cooler, funnier, sexy, more everything person than you actually are in real life.

Just to clarify the division of labor on the show, I write the show and Alan [Poul] does everything else.

You can only write, 'Somebody wants something, something else is in their way of getting it.'

Government should be a place where people can come together, and no one gets left behind. No one…gets left behind. An instrument of good.

I'm not interested in the difference between good and bad, I'm interested in the differences between good and great.

I've never met anyone who has said, "My goal is to make America mediocre." That's a kind of hard-right conservative fallacy.