You learn more when things go wrong..

The way I personally work is I like to write what I know, what I feel, and also where I am..

I gravitate toward the law, I think, certainly more times than not, because it's our best mechanism for legislating human behavior, and morality, and….

We also have issue oriented storylines which are an examination of an issue, be it ethical or social..

When you create a show, and create characters, these people are like children to you..

When I really have to push and grope and scratch and claw to make a story work, that's a telltale sign that maybe something conceptually isn't right..

One of the most fundamental questions people have about defense attorneys is, 'How can you do that? How can you go to bat everyday for a person that ….

Some of my high school teachers did remind me that I had an excellent imagination when it came to making up excuses..

The ideal time for writing a [television] script is four days, though sometimes it has to be two or three days depending on the deadline. If it's two….

You've got to honor your relationship with your audience - that they sit down because they want to be entertained. And that doesn't mean you can't pr….

If you interview people or friends who work with me, they would say I'm private or internal or don't emote a lot. Yet I do it every day for 10 millio….

I never thought of myself as a writer..

I think the law changes, which is a nice luxury..

For me, I'm happy to succeed on any network..

It gets harder and harder to succeed and find audiences with the 500-channel universe, the remote control, and people being so trigger happy with tha….

My court skills may have atrophied..

People are out of their home on a Saturday night or they're at the movies or they're at dinner and a lot of the people who flip on the television are….

I don't think it's that strange that a show has sort of a bumpy beginning. It's just part and parcel of the process..

The designer [...] has a passion for doing something that fits somebody's needs, but that is not just a simple fix. The designer has a dream that goe….

When the stories come easily and the writing process doesn't feel laboring, that's usually a good sign for me..

But I do believe that in all my shows, I really enjoy the quirky, the eccentric characters, the ones you don't meet every day..