TV writing is for people who hate being alone more than they hate writing.

You don't drink and smoke that much, and womanize that much, unless you really want to be punished, I think.

Success has a lot of things that go along with it and I haven't experienced any personal resentment. I can't control any of that and I try not to worry about it. I hope that's not the case, you know. Most of the writers that I know and artists that I know understand what was going on. I think there's just as many things going on in the awards process that have to do with the show having won a few times.

I am trying to be as impartial as possible. As you can tell from the trailers for Mad Men, I am a person who believes that you should know nothing.

I'm in the entertainment business, where you're only as good as your last show.

My major goal is to take my bathrobe off before the kids get home from school.

That's the miracle of telling a story in film: You can express something inside someone's mind.