The Sopranos' is filled with really retrograde humor. Bathroom humor, falls, stupid puns, bad jokes - infantile, adolescent stuff, but it makes me laugh.

People have said that I said I hate television. I never did say that. What I said was that I hated a lot of stuff that was on television. It's nothing about the medium itself.

I think that the difference between The Sopranos and the shows that came before it was that it was really personal. There had been a lot of dramas, a lot of really good ones, a lot of really bad ones, but they were always franchise shows about cops, or doctors, or lawyers. They weren't about the writer himself.

Cancer don't respect nothing.

Television is a prisoner of dialogue and steady-cam. People walk down a hall, and the camera follows them around a corner.

But cheer up - we could be selling tobacco. It's not like software kills people if used as intended

Hope comes in many forms.