My preference would have been to not go back on the air after 9\11, at all until the time felt right but that wasn't an option.

Music is what mathematics does on a Saturday night.

I think that if I couldn't write, I would be unemployable.

Well, I must tell you I write the scripts very close to the bone. So I'm writing episode seven now and couldn't tell you what happens in episode eight.

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

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