And a wheat thin the size of Lake Tahoe..

Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright..

I consider plot a necessary intrusion on what I really want to do, which is write snappy dialogue. But when I'm writing, the way the words sound is a….

There are television critics, movie critics, and theater critics too who I like and who I follow and I get genuinely bummed when they don't like some….

When you're writing a movie or a play and writing isn't going well, which is for me the normal condition - it's an exceptional day when suddenly I've….

I'm not interested in the difference between good and bad, I'm interested in the differences between good and great..

It wouldn't kill you to watch a film or pick up a newspaper once in a while..

If you can socialize from the privacy of your desk at night in a dark room, you can be a smoother, cooler, funnier, sexy, more everything person than….

I want to convey that I'm crazy about the Kardashians - but I'm not sure which is which..

An artist’s job is to captivate… if we stumble into truth, we got lucky..

President Bartlet: There's a delegation of cardiologists having their pictures taken in the Blue Room. You wouldn't think you could find a group of p….

It's important to remember that, first and foremost, if not only, this is entertainment. 'The West Wing' isn't meant to be good for you..

I'm sick of girls who don't know how to high-five..

There are no Asian movie stars.

I like workplace shows and White House was a very glamorous workplace to set a show in; it appealed to a sense of romanticism and idealism that I hav….

There's that process of writing it - then you come out of your room into the sunlight, and you now have to complete the circuit and make the connecti….

Mrs. Landingham, does the President have free time this morning? The President has nothing but free time, Toby. Right now he's in the residence eatin….

I love writing but hate starting. The page is awfully white and it says, "You may have fooled some of the people some of the time but those days are ….

Tell me what you think and then tell me what the really smart person in the room who disagrees with you thinks..

Stupid people surround themselves with smart people. Smart people surround themselves with smart people who disagree with them..

There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I want….