Execution as punishment is barbaric and unnecessary.

I've had young women come to me and say that before they watched 'Voyager' it didn't really occur to them that they could be successful in a higher position in the field of science; girls going to MIT, girls pursuing astrophysics with a view to a career in NASA.

Abortion does not compute with my philosophy.

I've done a lot of television in life, and I don't remember the last time that I felt so consistently happy [working with Jenji Kohan].

Great writing is great writing. It's as simple as all that.

Over the course of my career, which is about 40 years, I've visited plenty of prisons and I know what they're like.

An Edward Povey hangs in my living room and every day I am reminded of his originality, his beauty, and the eternal promise of his craft.