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The Monica Lewinsky Scandal Was Happening At The Very Time I Was Writing The West Wing Pilot And It Was Hard, At Least For Americans, To Look At The White House And Think Of Anything But A Punch Line. Plus A Show About Politics, A Show That Took Place In Washington, Had Just Never Worked Before In American Television. So The Show Was Delayed For A Year.

It's A Combination Of Life Being Unpredictable, And You Being Super Dumb.

Trying To Guess What The (mass) Audience Wants And Then Trying To Satisfy That Is Usually A Bad Recipe For Getting Something Good.

The Real Problem With All Drugs Is That They Work. Fantastically. They're Great, Right Up Until The Moment They Kill You.

I Got Into Dialogue Because My Parents Began Taking Me To See Plays From When I Was Very Young. Too Young, Often, To Understand The Play I Was Watching: Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf When I Was Nine Years Old; That Championship Season When I Was Ten Years Old. But I Loved The Sound Of Dialogue; It Sounded Like Music To Me And I Wanted To Imitate That Sound.