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.

It wouldn't kill you to watch a film or pick up a newspaper once in a while.

I'm a playwright. All I care about is the play being good.

I think it's up to writers to write stuff that is compelling enough that people want to watch.

It was hard saying goodbye to the character and harder saying goodbye to the actor. When rumours started going around that Rob Lowe might be leaving I got an email from Josh Malina asking if I'd be interested in an actor who was cheaper and not as good looking. I wrote back, "Always", and that was that.

The guy who wins the Oscar for Best Actor has a much higher bar to clear than the woman who wins best actress.

Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.