Something inside of me just said 'Hey, wait a minute, I want to beat him,' and I just took off.

What I want is to be number one.

I read every script from beginning to end, and I read every draft that I can. I like the show, I like the character, and I want to protect both of those things.

I desperately want a dog, but I've been told I travel too much, and I'm not allowed to have a dog.

People get on a show and they fought tooth and nail. Almost 95% of the actors out there want to be on a television series. Then as soon as they get onto one, no, no, I want to be a movie star. This television series stuff, no, no no.

If you want a higher power, go to the goddamn sun. Just go to the sun - and stop destroying the ozone layer.

Everything, everything, everything! I want to know everything. I want the privilege of being a crone.

I'm sick of all these knights in shining armor parts, I want to do something worthwhile like plays and films that have something to say.

I want so much for my lover. At night when our beds are drawn close together I waken and see his dear yellow head on the pillow - sometimes his arm thrown over on my bed - and I kiss his hand, very softly so that it will not waken him.

I don't want to spend the rest of my life giving speeches.

In any ethical situation, the thing you want least to do is probably the right action.

And meanwhile, the storytellers like me and Anderson, Silverberg... we tell stories. People like them. They want to know how it comes out, they want to know what the ending is.

Adults are always asking kids what they want to be when they grow up because they are looking for ideas.

It's very simple. We are asking baseball to come clean and set the record straight. Either baseball officials seriously want to rid their sport of doping, or they want to brush the issue under the carpet. So far, we haven't seen much evidence of the former.

What I have in advance are people I want to write about and a problem or problems that I see those people encountering and that I want to explore - it all proceeds sentence by sentence, paragraph by paragraph, and scene by scene.