At the end of your days, you will be judged by your gallop, not by your stumble.

Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope.

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

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.

With the success of a show, you get an opportunity to call attention to things that 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.

Aaron is a very passionate, maniacal writer so the scripts really come from him, but he is very open to... y'know, we'll plan ideas and we'll certainly tussle about stuff when the script comes out. So, to a certain extent, he's very interested. If there's some problem or something that doesn't ring true, he wants to know why and he wants to correct it or fight for it.