I am done with the hour-long [true crime] shows: "She was a happy married wife. Everything was perfect. Until the trip to Aruba."

It's a nightmare of editing. That's what I do all day.

By engaging someone for five minutes, you can make them a lifelong fan.

Part of walking the line as showrunner is trying to please people and still be true to what you believe creatively.

Fans can't ruin shows. Only creators can.

In a landscape where a 2.8 [demo rating] keeps you on the air, you can maintain that just by treating your fans with respect.

When you're on a staff, it's not your job to write what you think is funny. It's your job to write what the person who created the show thinks is funny.

Until I created my own shows, I had nothing but bad experiences on staffs.

Any time you try to be edgy just for the sake of being edgy, that's the worst way.

The writing is what's most important to me.

With showrunning, the more successful you get, the more you're pulled away from the writing.

For man, mind is the cause of bondage and mind is the cause of liberation. Mind absorbed in sense objects is the cause of bondage, and mind detached from the sense objects is the cause of liberation.

I think it's amazing that I'm 45 and it is the most creatively successful year of my life.

I don't believe in the after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

[T]he scientific enterprise will never be completely free of mistakes. What is important is that the overwhelming consensus on global warming remains unchanged.

I wouldn't hurt a flea. I'd finger a spider though.

Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his truths.

Tragedy is clean, it is restful, it is flawless.

That was one thing you found out when you were stoned, or wasted, or feverish: that the world was always turning and that only a healthy mind could block out the sickening whirl of it.

The minute you celebrate narcissism, which on one hand is very complex, it's very ridiculous. You have to love oneself with humor.

I don't know. I always sort of liked playing [Georgia] that second game because you could always count on them having two or three key players suspended.