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

I don’t believe there are two sides to every argument. I think the facts are the center. And watching the news abandon the facts in favor of “fairness” is what’s troubling to me.

I would love for people to think that I am as quick, clever, smart and heroic as the characters that I write, but those characters are characters.

There are no Asian movie stars

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.

With a television series, there's a hard deadline, and so you have to write even when you're not writing well.

The stuff that I write doesn't work very well as background music. You have to watch it from beginning to end and pay attention as if you were watching a play.