If you stand too close to a painting - all you see are patches of color, if you stand too far back, you can't see any of the detail.

Making Homeland series is not improvisational comedy theater, but it is improvisation. We might get a call that morning, while we're doing something, and the change goes in that is something that just happened an hour ago, in the world.

I have no idea what's coming next or where it will come from; I enjoy the surprise of it all.

Everyone's entitled to their own experience.

When I'm on the road with concerts, people ask me to autograph my CDs, but more and more they come up with the cookbooks.

I try to get that across in the work, to try to, if I'm lucky, to make this world a little bit better for all of us before I check out. And that's if I'm lucky, I don't always get to have that privilege but I try always.

I would go to war with words, not weapons. I would die talking before I lifted a weapon.