Perhaps something like Facebook couldn't have been invented by somebody who goes out five nights a week and has a ton of friends and makes friends really easily.

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

To use a basketball metaphor, West Wing cast was a group that liked to pass as much as they liked to shoot.

I love writing but hate starting. The page is awfully white and it says, "You may have fooled some of the people some of the time but those days are over, giftless. I'm not your agent and I'm not your mommy, I'm a white piece of paper, you wanna dance with me?" and I really, really don't. I'll go peaceable-like.

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

A hero would die for his country, but he'd much rather live for it.

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