Unfortunately Seattle is my muse, for the better or worse of Seattle - I'm not sure.

When I'm sitting at my computer writing, I really have this fiendish smile on my face. I am not thinking about the past or the future or how it's going to be received. I feel that I'm very lucky that way; I don't carry that particular anxiety around with me. I'm not anxiety-free by any means, but that happens to be one that I've been spared.

Mad About You fit my sensibility the most of any show that I worked on, and as a result, it was really fun. It felt like a very natural fit.

I drop my kid off at school and then race home, and its a very limited time. I can only do really serious writing for a couple of hours. And then I always go on a walk, I do a one-to-two-hour walk; I dont go running or hard hiking.

The first stop on this crazy train is Kindergarten Junction, and nobody gets off until it pulls into Harvard Station.

I think thats the most important job of a novelist - to bring authority to their writing.

Anything I write I ask myself: Is it true, is it entertaining?