"Guilt is petty; I am above guilt."

-- Susan Cheever

“Things only looked wrong when there was someone to see you.”
“Don't kill yourself, kill the part of you that you don't like.”
“Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.”
“If I switch showrunners and I get to stay on the show, I approach it like it's their show, and I'm here to write their music for them.”

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“The first thing I do is lay out that melody and figure out how it has to hold here and then finish to land here, because you know in advance you're going to want the melody to catch four things in the action.”
“Resist the need to be 'right' all the time or to always have the last word.”
“American poetry has been part of a culture in conflict....We are a people tending toward democracy at the level of hope; at another level, the economy of the nation, the empire of business within the republic, both include in their basic premise the idea of perpetual warfare”
“Well, one of the things I love about 'The Office' is that it has so much heart.”

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