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

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.

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

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.

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.

We can only diffuse kindness, to the souls filled with bitterness. This is the greatest deeds to awaken their good spirit.

It is the nature of physics to hear the loudest of mouths over the most comprehensive ones.

I have lain long here in your mind, longer than any nightmare has before me. I have sunk my roots into your worst imaginings and feasted on your memories. I know you, child.

Drive. He’s already dead.

His notes to the outside world offered a window on an active, sympathetic, eclectic mind.

I just count myself really lucky to have a career that I love and that continues to pay my rent.

Only now I'm learning to enjoy not being in charge of what the next stroke will do to the whole painting. I'm still learning that there are no mistakes, only discoveries.

If you haven't failed, you haven't tried very hard.

An apt aphorism half kills, half immortalizes.

I love confidence in a guy. I don't have it, but there's nothing sexier.