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

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

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

You don't want your credibility banana to turn brown, but you do want to speak out about what you believe in.

Whatever you do, make sure you want to write more than you want to be a writer. Make sure you want to act more than you want to be an actor. That is what will sustain you.

You don't want to become one of those Hollywood idiots who is just blathering about anything

I heard an Israeli speaking on Palestinian human rights issues, an interesting guy, and he said 'There's no military solution to terrorism. If there were, Israel would be the safest place in the world. But there's no military solution.'