It's really clear to me that you can't hang onto something longer than its time. Ideas lose certain freshness, ideas have a shelf life, and sometimes they have to be replaced by other ideas.

It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

Jean Paul Sartre says in "No Exit" that hell is other people. Well, our task in life is to make it heaven. Or at least earth.

My mother didn't try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that.

When your kids turn 13, an alien being invades their bodies and doesn't leave until they're 20.

Be brave enough to live creatively . . . what you'll discover will be wonderful: yourself.

Working on The West Wing was similar in many ways to my experience on M*A*S*H, because you had people willing to work late at night to get it just right.