I don't think it's going to be possible for the next generation of writers to tell stories without telling stories about telling stories.

Find your voice, shout it from the rooftops, and keep doing it until the people that are looking for you find you.

Storytelling comes naturally to humans, but since we live in an unnatural world, we sometimes need a little help doing what we'd naturally do.

Once upon a time, something happened, and it was better than something not happening. The end.

All [tv] shows are like cigarettes. You watch two, you have a higher chance of watching three. They're all addictive.

Don't be so hard on yourself, don't put pressure on yourself, life is just a chain of experiments and results, and you'll be perfect when you're dead.

I am a collaborator with everyone who agrees that I need to be in control. I happily collaborate with my loyalists.

I always try to use my medium, and if I get into a normal sitcom-writing contest with normal sitcom writers, I'm going to lose.

I feel like my life has always been the 'Hey Look at Me Show.' I'm not apologetic about that.

Pretty sad. Pretty lonely. But that's how I prefer it? I quess? I guess. It's a good guess. It's the best quess ever.

The public's perception of your show is what it is, and you don't get to complain how people perceive your show or talk about it.

Looks like Kelsey wins the award for early riser. And doesn’t she look purtier than a pat of butter meltin’ all over a stack of griddle cakes?

I chose to be a writer no more than I chose to be female.

They never die who have the future in them.

We want revenge. We played well against them last time, and we feel like it's our turn.

Stately as a galleon, I sail across the floor,Doing the military two-step, as in the days of yore.

We give our intent to love and meekness, by the working of mercy and grace we are made all fair and clean.

[On The Netherlands:] ... the entire country is a kind of saturated sponge.

Finding solitude in the concrete jungle is powerful and peaceful.

The big elephant sitting in the corner is that George W. Bush is simply unqualified for the job. What's his accomplishment? That he's no longer an obnoxious drunk?

I read a ton of paper every day. I read the newspapers, I read my intelligence materials, I read all the briefing materials. I read the newspaper in hard copy.