A friend is somebody who says the same things to your face that they would say if you're not in the room.

I consider plot a necessary intrusion on what I really want to do, which is write snappy dialogue. But when I'm writing, the way the words sound is as important to me as what they mean.

Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age

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.

Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good.

Conflict, when used as a device, makes for good television and bad journalism.

Toby: All right. It couldn't have gone far, right? Sam: No. Toby: Somewhere in this building...is our talent.