There are television critics, movie critics, and theater critics too who I like and who I follow and I get genuinely bummed when they don't like something that I've written because I usually agree with them.

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.

Josh: So, Toby, it’s election night. What do you say about a country that goes out of its way to protect even those citizens that try to destroy it? Toby: God bless America.

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.

It's nice that HBO is in business with the audience and not with the advertisers. There's a difference.

There's that process of writing it - then you come out of your room into the sunlight, and you now have to complete the circuit and make the connection finally with the audience.

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