I want to see Bob Dylan do sketch comedy. I'm a huge Bob Dylan fan.

Anybody who can dial a telephone can master tennis scoring in about 15 minutes.

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.

People always say, "Could it have been a show about a conservative Republican administration?" No! Nobody wants to watch that! Watching Republicans flirt makes people queasy!

Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.

Only two things ever stop the government from doing anything: money and politics

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