This isn’t a Broadway show, Josh, we don’t just close it down after a successful eight-year run. - Lawrence O’Donnell, Jr. The West Wing

I love her. I love her mind, I love her shoes. - Debora Cahn, The West Wing

You know who are the lucky ones? The Mary Agneses of the world. Mary Agnes has her whole life figured out: get married next June, save her money, plod along in her job, never look to life to give her anything more. She’s the poor little product of training and ignorance and habit, and she’s smarter than any of you. - Rona Jaffe, The Best of Everything

Every girl is an authority about her own life. - Rona Jaffe, The Best of Everything

She might have a rational mind, but no one has a rational soul. - Stephen Gallagher, The Bedlam Detective

I can never live so lightly. It all means too much to me. - Abi Morgan, The Hour

You have a natural gravity. - Abi Morgan, The Hour

I always hear “Punch me in the face,” when you’re speaking, but it’s usually subtext. - Steven Moffat, Sherlock

I have no right to be unhappy, which is almost the same. - Julian Fellowes, Downton Abbey

The frailty of genius, John. It needs an audience. - Steven Moffat, Sherlock