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.

One of the biggest challenges in the past for me in working on the networks was that audiences have grown accustomed to television being something that keeps you company-background music, something that you have on while you're flipping through a magazine, cooking dinner, talking on the phone, putting the kids to bed.

If you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind.

Toby Zeigler: There's literally no one in the world I don't hate right now.

The real problem with all drugs is that they work. Fantastically. They're great, right up until the moment they kill you.

I want to convey that I'm crazy about the Kardashians - but I'm not sure which is which.

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.