The guy who wins the Oscar for Best Actor has a much higher bar to clear than the woman who wins best actress..

Only criminals and adulterers should have to hide who they are..

If you close your eyes you can imagine the hackers sitting in a room, combing through the documents to find the ones that will draw the most blood. A….

I have a lot of respect for people who are great at ad-libbing, and for writers and directors who are able to create a scene in which that works..

I grew up in the theatre. It's where I got my start. Writing a television drama with theatrical dialogue about the theatre is beyond perfection..

It's certainly easy for me to make a fictional character mad about something. I can get them angry about something that I'm relatively indifferent ab….

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

Just to clarify the division of labor on the show, I write the show and Alan [Poul] does everything else..

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

Elite is not a bad word, it's an aspirational one..

It was hard saying goodbye to the character and harder saying goodbye to the actor. When rumours started going around that Rob Lowe might be leaving ….

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 don't want to analyze myself or anything, but I think, in fact I know this to be true, that I enter the world through what I write. I grew up belie….

I'd been concerned all along that the character of the president in the West Wing pilot would throw the ensemble out of whack, that that character wo….

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 f….

Larry David called me and said, "You can never watch The West Wing again. Either the show is going to be great without you and you're going to be mis….

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..

I would love for people to think that I am as quick, clever, smart and heroic as the characters that I write, but those characters are characters..

Music is what mathematics does on a Saturday night..

Humans know when it's not a good story. Unless you do this for a living, you may not know exactly why you don't like a story, but you can't fool an a….

Decisions are made by those who show up. Don't ever forget that you're a citizen of this world..