Quotes from David Shore

It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

There are three choices in this life: be good, get good, or give up.

You're supposed to trust friends. You have no reason to be his friend? That is part of the pleasure of friendship: trusting without absolute evidence and then being rewarded for that trust.

Things have their place. You wouldn't hang dreidels from a Christmas tree.

If you are not willing to look stupid, nothing great is ever going to happen to you.

If we were to care about every person suffering on this planet, life would shut down.

Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

You're supposed to trust friends. You have no reason to be his friend? That is part of the pleasure of friendship: trusting without absolute evidence and then being rewarded for that trust.

You have to be driven by the stories that you want to tell. You can't simply be responding, or there won't be any real heart to those stories anymore.

The saying within the writer's room, which were my words of wisdom, if you will, was, "The punishment doesn't have to fit the crime, but there has to be a crime."

Like I always say, there's no "I" in "team." There is a "me," though, if you jumble it up.