Toby: All right. It couldn't have gone far, right? Sam: No. Toby: Somewhere in this building...is our talent.

Don't ever forget that you're a citizen of this world, and there are things you can do to lift the human spirit, things that are easy, things that are free, things that you can do every day: civility, respect, kindness, character.

I do enjoy the fact that we don't have a king or queen; we have a person with a very unusual temp job for a few years. My favorite moments on the show were always showing the intersection of the person and the job. Any time Bartlet from the West Wing could be something other than the president - a father, or a husband, or a son, or a friend.

Socializing on the internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality.

A friend is somebody who says the same things to your face that they would say if you're not in the room.

Elite is not a bad word, it's an aspirational one.

Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.