I did not always agree, personally, on the positions that Bartlet, character from the West Wing, took and I argued against them on many occasions. But Aaron Sorkin said, "Martin, that's you, that's not Barlet. It's a very political decision he has to make." I found from the very beginning that when I infused my own personal feelings about an issue it went against the grain of the character.

John Wells let me write a couple of West Wings, which was an incredible gift. I loved it once I got past the brain injury part of it, and so I'm working on a couple of things that are far from fruition, but what I want to pursue

My joke about Aaron Sorkin is that The West Wing was a great show about democracy, run by Kim Jong-Il!

Richard Schiff is a really good baseball player. It's surprising because he looks exhausted.

We all go through life bristling at our external limitations, but the most difficult chains to break are inside us.

The invisible carnage of the unf-ed wives and the children not being read to is just wafting out.

You need to be real enough to be believable, but you don't necessarily have to be real enough to be real. There is a distinction.