“With a live audience, it's very clear when you've pushed it too far to...” — Michael Patrick King Quote

“With a live audience, it's very clear when you've pushed it too far to the edge - because you fall off that edge and hit bottom with a thud. Nothing abstract about that. You know you went too far when you hear that groan or worse - that silence instead of the big laugh you were expecting following your hilariously edgy joke.”

“Let there be no mistake. A gay man alone could never begin to replicate the inner workings of the female mind.”

“It seems a lot of straight men need a word coach or a lawyer when it comes to discussing 'Sex and the City.'”

“I personally don't care for abstract art. I have always felt, 'To each his own.' There's art out there for everybody.”

“Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts.”

“My stories often begin with a situation or character rather than an insight about the human condition. It's always been difficult for me to write from an abstract idea, no matter how interesting or compelling I feel the idea might be.”