At the time I wrote 'Forever,' I had a 14-year-old daughter, and she was reading a lot of books about young love.

Everybody wants to share life and be in love and be loved.

I wanted to write what I remembered to be true.

Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear.

Life goes on if you're one of the lucky ones.

I don't think people change; electronics change, the things we have change, but the way we live doesn't change.

You learn something every time you make a mistake.

I loved teaching and I did a lot of work as a teacher's assistant in college, and my favorite experience was basically getting a laugh from a bunch of people because they had just understood something.

My mom is a teacher, my dad was a writer for television, his dad was a writer for television, and combining those two has been sort of the goal of my life.

I was a little bit ashamed of American TV because I thought, 'None of the shows my father works on are as funny as my father.'

I kept telling my mom that reading comic books would pay off.

The more you can create a structure by which people live in a fantastical situation and by which they will act, and the more you lay that out for the audience, the more they will feel at home in it.

The musicals that I love on stage are generally meant for the stage.

I do have screenplays I've written that never saw the light of day, but I don't usually go back to them. When I've told a story, I want to tell another story.

Soon, I will be 'King of all Hollywoodland.'

I usually write things in my head before I ever write them down. When I write it out, usually I've already figured out what it is I'm trying to do.

I'm very much more interested in the created family than I am in actual families.

I've been in this business for a long while, but it's not like I've been waiting tables. Since I started writing, I've only worked on things that I love. I've had a lot of heartbreak, but you don't become an artist and not expect that.

I love a good romantic comedy.

I've been doing Shakespeare readings with my friends for years.

Shakespeare's language does not require a British accent. It requires a facility with language, and that's all.

I respect television in a way that some people who came out of film might not.

I'll always protect what I'm working on. Which is why more and more of it is stuff only I can ruin.

I never give up on anything, because you come back around, and suddenly the thing you thought you'd never do is relevant.