If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

Matthew Wiener on 'Mad Men' writes the entire series before they start shooting, and if you have that, then what you can do with character and story is not at all unlike what you can do in a novel.

If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words.

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.

There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.