For the most part you are dealing with jealousy, you are dealing with love, you're dealing with hatred, you are dealing with revenge and all of these sort of classic things.

What you'll gain is the macro story. You'll get a good command of that. And what you might lose is some of the fun of it.

They say to just write about what's happening in your backyard because that's where you find the most creativity. It's in the DNA of the show. There's no question.

I joked recently that I thought 30 seconds a day for three years would be the best way to enjoy it, and I'm going to stand by that statement.

Violence has not really been an issue. Even in my wildest hopes, I wasn't trying to get violence in.

We mapped out the whole movie, and then worked backwards from that to do these shows. It might not be a movie. It might be something else.

My knee-jerk is that it is comedy and, if you watch them all back-to-back, you will gain something and you will lose something.

One of the great things about TV is the story to tell can be very internal and really character-based.

Writers need restrictions. If somebody just says, "Hey, do you want to write a novel, or an article, or a movie, or a short story, you get shut down."

Chance favors the well prepared. The more stuff you throw in, the more chances you have of looking like, 'I did that.'

Regret is a tricky word. Here's a big secret: nobody knows what wasn't.

To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. [....] The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.

Sometimes we need to examine who we are, what we stand for and the people we allow in our lives.

Consider it a race to see who kills you first, Daylighter-Valentine, the other Downworlders, or the Clave.

I don't believe in careers. I believe in work. I'm not interested in some 'big picture that would be really good for me'.

The big and the fast beat the small and the fast. If you check out the NBA today, they're big and fast.

And how does God speak to you?" "In the language of everything that is beautiful.

I think there's a good kid underneath everybody. I really do.

Friend, our closeness is this: anywhere you put your foot, feel me in the firmness under you.

It's dangerous to read the Internet about yourself when you're me. Or when you're anyone in the public eye.

I view derivatives as time bombs, both for the parties that deal in them and the economic system.