When I feel that something I'm writing is going well, everything in my life is good and the things in my life that aren't good are completely manageable. If it's not going well, Miss America could be standing there in a swimsuit handing me a nobel price and I wouldn't be happy about it

I grew up in the theatre. It's where I got my start. Writing a television drama with theatrical dialogue about the theatre is beyond perfection.

Never argue with a drunk or a fool.

She's a person; the doctor pronounces her dead, not the news.

Rule of storytelling: When a character is shoved against a wall, shove them against a wall harder.

And a wheat thin the size of Lake Tahoe.

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