“To use a basketball metaphor, West Wing cast was a group that liked to pass as much as they liked to shoot.”

I’ve never met anyone who has said, “My goal is to make America mediocre.” That’s a kind of hard-right conservative fallacy.

A news organization has a much different responsibility. I might not be telling you the whole story. I might not be telling you a story in a manner that is properly sophisticated.

My preference would have been to not go back on the air after 911, at all until the time felt right but that wasn’t an option.

When I was a kid, I wanted to be an actor. I was acting in all the school plays. I went to school for acting. I was really sure that that’s what I wanted to do.

She’s a person; the doctor pronounces her dead, not the news.

I’ve never met anyone who has said, “My goal is to make America mediocre.” That’s a kind of hard-right conservative fallacy.

I’m a playwright. All I care about is the play being good.

I think that if I couldn’t write, I would be unemployable.

My resting pulse as a writer is writing idealistically and romantically; aspirationally. My taste lies in quixotic heroes.

It’s populated by people who, by and large, have terrific communication skills. Every day is an extraordinary day. For me, it was just a great area for storytelling.

Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That’s what I look for.

Writing anything, it sorta starts the way you’d build a castle at the beach. You’re just taking your hands and you’re mounting up sand.

This is a time for serious people, Bob, and your fifteen minutes are up.

I’m terribly afraid of failure. When your identity is wrapped up in writing and you’ve written something that doesn’t work, it’s a tough pill to swallow.

If you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind.

Roxy Sorkin, your father just won the Academy Award. I’m going to have to insist on some respect from your guinea pig.

Like just now. Like now. How is it possible? Can you love someone more and more and at the same time, all the time, love them as much as it’s possible to love someone?

I was right at the edge of their circle, like the tail of a Q…

The ocean is such a huge, beautiful thing that I feel like we all take for granted.

Say, Nana… You look like stray cat, wild and proud. But I can see the wound in your heart. At the time I just thought it was cool. I never realized how hurt you were.

The feeling that was born that night, how could i describe it?Words like love or lust just don’t seem right.

Life is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are.

Hopefully, other successes aren’t like me. It carries much more meaning to other people; my success story is irrelevant. It doesn’t make any sense.

Another one is Eric Clapton. Another one is Phil Collins. Eminem, Kanye West I like all those people.