At some point if you're a professional writer, no matter what, it always comes down to you staring at the blank page by yourself.

I think when you do a season of television you go into it going I'd like the season premiere needs to be amazing. The season finale needs to be amazing.

Probably the biggest challenge is actors, no matter how talented the actor is they don't have the capability of being in more than one place than one particular time, which is very vexing.

I love doing meta-humor, as long as it doesn't become too distracting and it's subtle.

Time away from thinking about something is as valuable - perhaps even more so - than directly thinking about it.

Your subconscious is always working in the background, unlocking things and solving problems.

The guy who sits at the keyboard and types is so much smarter than I am. I think I got into writing so that I could spend as much time with that guy as possible.

Do what you love and you'll always love what you do. I've found that that's true most of the time.

The world's an angry place these days. Let's just not take it out on each other.

There should be nothing I can't live without.

At the end of the day, I think the only way to do the kind of job a writer does is push everything aside and just ultimately sit down and do the work.

A phenomenon often seen. A sceptic adhering to a believer

Always give but never expect. Giving is happiness

We all have the potential for greatness in us. But we must not fail to make consistent use of it.

Stevie Wonder's records introduced me to '70s soul when I was 12 or 13.

I'm just a big old nerd.

Our trusting the Lord does not mean that there are not times of tears. I think it is a mistake as Christians to act as though trusting the Lord and tears are not compatible.

The truth is, everybody I've ever met who's successful is a workaholic.

In society, one doesn't tell the truth, one tells the exact opposite.

An intelligent woman is a woman with whom one can be as stupid as one wants.

Whatever you base your life on--you have to live up to that. Jesus is the one Lord you can live for who already died for you.