I think writers write for their consciences, they write for their own true audiences, for their souls.
Tchaikovsky was one of the great melody writers of all time.
In television writing, even if you're running the writers room, it's a writers room.
Biggest musical influences would be people like Nina Simone and Tom Waits. A huge amount of writers like Leslie Feist and Paul Simon.
Writers are too neurotic to ever be happy.
Until the writers room sets it down on a sheet of paper and then it gets in front of a camera, it's all vaporware.
I thought 'Borat' was a breakthrough comedy, because it was really funny. It wasn't some studio-produced script with 14 writers.
Even though no one admits it, writers are leaders in their communities.
I am aware that most 27-year-old writers do not co-host galas in their hometowns.
Writers are rememberers.
You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.
But that was war. Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated...
The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and...
You better take care of me Lord, if you don't you're gonna have me on your hands.
It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter...
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is...
If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would...
Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.