And a wheat thin the size of Lake Tahoe.

We live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns.

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

Decisions are made by those who show up. Don't ever forget that you're a citizen of this world.

When you're writing a movie or a play and writing isn't going well, which is for me the normal condition - it's an exceptional day when suddenly I've got something and it's going well - you can call the studio or the producer or whoever is waiting for it and say, "I know I said I was going to have it in by the end of the summer.

The Monica Lewinsky scandal was happening at the very time I was writing the West Wing pilot and it was hard, at least for Americans, to look at the White House and think of anything but a punch line. Plus a show about politics, a show that took place in Washington, had just never worked before in American television. So the show was delayed for a year.

Roxy Sorkin, your father just won the Academy Award. I'm going to have to insist on some respect from your guinea pig.