I hope to live long and be happy. But I'd like to be remembered as somebody who did good rather than mischief.

I think one of the downsides of the sort of obsession with romantic love and personal fulfillment is that the plain fact of the matter is that those feelings don't last for ever and so they better be replaced and reinforced by things that do.

It sounds extraordinary but it's a fact that balance sheets can make fascinating reading.

I will say that the prison regime is rather a good one for a writer because you have plenty of time to write.

Jason Katims creates truly relatable three-dimensional people you fall in love with right away. Jason always puts a lot of heart into what he does. He has a way of touching your emotional core in a life-affirming way. And he's a great show runner.

Prom has all the elements of a popular story. It reeks of all-Americanness, tension, drama. It has romance. Pretty dresses. Dancing. Limos. High school. Coming of age.

When you're old-fashioned like I am, you know marriage is forever. Those vows are a promise.

All I knew growing up was that my father was married to and loved my momma, period. He worked hard, made some money, and put it on the dresser. She spent it on the family, and he went out and earned some more. He taught me the most about love.