I work from a deep sense of insecurity. I have the belief, and I can't shake it, that there are endless reasons to turn the channel. There are hundreds of channels and entirely other things to do besides TV. And if you make a bad television show there's no reason for the audience to come back the following week.

That's a discovery process. That's the terrifying and wonderful part about getting picked up to series. You get to develop the stories and talk about the characters, and find out where the heart of the series is.

According to the rules of comedy, your suffering will be funny after an undetermined length of time. Maybe not while you're having your gangrenous leg sawed off, watching your home burn down or learning how to be intimate with your cellmate, but, in the big scheme of things, soon.

If Charlie Sheen outlives me, I'm gonna be really pissed.

I believe that the laws of karma do not apply to show business, where good things happen to bad people on a fairly regular basis.

I'm an old guitar player who has fallen into television and is so happy he did.

Life is never quite like the brochure.