As hard as you try to write a good script and you have great intentions, this alchemy has to occur.

I think that we're moving into this new phase of television where audiences are really embracing stories with a beginning, middle, and end.

It's a very artistic process to translate and adapt a book into a series.

As a writer, I always think about who my prototype actors are, in my brain. It's helpful, as a writer, to think about that.

I think that the best television now is giving you a three-act experience.

Tragedy is a great storytelling form. It worked extremely well for Shakespeare. It worked extremely well for Jim Cameron with Titanic.

It's entirely possible that the notion of what is the past, what is the present and what is the future, could change.

The Following and Hannibal are really well made, but the tone is very consistently dark.

You have to be able to get inside the heads of the characters and completely sympathize and understand them.

I have seen so many lands vanish in my wake, torn down like stage sets. What survives of them? An image as fleeting as a dream: whatever beauties I discovered, I already knew by heart.

Do you dare journey into the wild places of your heart?

Ritual is the way you carry the presence of the sacred. Ritual is the spark that must not go out.

Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of mercury in a barometer, indicate little else than the variability of the weather.

My son is 22 years old. If he had not become a Communist at 22, I would have disowned him. If he is still a Communist at 30, I will do it then.

(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.

The only thing left for Barack Obama to do is to work like a third world dictator and just put all these guys in jail.

When I was a senior, I ran for class president. And I lost. One of my opponents even told me I was "really stupid" if I thought a girl could be elected president.

Had Windham possessed discretion in debate, or Sheridan in conduct, they might have ruled their age.

It was nice to get three goals, but I dont feel I have anything to prove.