My court skills may have atrophied.

You've got to honor your relationship with your audience - that they sit down because they want to be entertained. And that doesn't mean you can't provoke them and antagonize them and challenge them in the course of the entertainment as long as you keep the entertainment part of the equation alive.

If you interview people or friends who work with me, they would say I'm private or internal or don't emote a lot. Yet I do it every day for 10 million people. I just don't do it for the 30 people I'm in the room with.

The more lawyers there are, the more people are out there to encourage others not to go to law school.

Some of my high school teachers did remind me that I had an excellent imagination when it came to making up excuses.

When you create a show, and create characters, these people are like children to you.

I gravitate toward the law, I think, certainly more times than not, because it's our best mechanism for legislating human behavior, and morality, and ethics.