As you always discover when you make something, typically if your object isn't frivolous, people's relationship to it isn't frivolous.

Let there be a wide breadth of possible ways to create.

Anything you make has its own wavelength and its own sound. It's like a tuning fork, until the things that resonate are correct for it.

If we don't keep people engaged, we're not going to move you. And if we move you, we've done something useful. That's what anybody who writes genre knows.

I think people underestimate the value of collaboration, especially for writers.

I have now become so infatuated with television. I think television has become elegant.

Love scenes are the hardest things in the world and if you enjoy them, that's wonderful, because nobody making them sits there and goes, 'Let's do that again tomorrow.'

Sometimes you see auteur TV shows and movies, and those are great.

The idea of starting with that Kanye [West] song is declarative. It says, "This is the kind of story we're telling."

What happens is that the experience of writers working together and the idea of creative collaboration is so delightful, but it has been relegated to TV.

Of man there is little here: therefore do their women masculinize themselves. For only he who is man enough will save the woman in woman.

Needless to say, there was no one around remotely fitting the description of a normal person: I was at a writing conference.

If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!

Being able to fantasize for a couple of days at being a rock singer surpassed most things I've done on stage.

We need to substitute for the book a device that will make it easy to transmit information without transporting material.

I wasn't the guy everyone liked. I was the guy that wouldn't shut up.

Different times and different structures make more sense at one point in life than at another.

Anytime I shoot a video, I just think of anything I can do to set myself apart from everybody in the music industry.

Truth is God, and truth overrides all our plans.

I love my job very much, and I don't think I would change it. In fact, I know I wouldn't, because I can't do anything else.