I have to say, as a showrunner, being niche-y is kind of a great thing.

I came to accept in myself a long time ago that I really do like writing articulate sociopaths.

The funny thing for me is, I have never lived in a network world.

I have always been drawn to characters, and this was true for my feature-writing career as well, where there is a tension between rule-breaking and rule-following.

I'm a rule follower. But there is also a part of me, clearly, that doesn't follow them.

Everybody should have a television show. Let's all get television shows!

I'm fortunate to have had my own level of success. My joys in life are I've got three little kids, and I got to buy a house that I really like, and everyone should have that.

I am very conscious on a daily basis of how extraordinarily blessed I am to get to do what I do and work with the people that I work with, so I make a practice of being grateful.

I am fortunate in that I am motivated to do what I do by just a really goofy desire to do it. Maybe I have demons that are hidden away someplace, and I'll discover mine someday.

Spies have the same kinds of needs and desires that everybody does, which is funny. The best kind of comedy derives from that kind of truth.

Obviously, everybody's favorite form of web content is more story with principal actors. But the economics of the web do not yet support.

Life is all about making others SUCCESSFUL!!

None of the shades of blue can paint the character of few men.

One of the major differences between successful people and unsuccessful people is that they never stop trying in whatever it is that they do.

It felt as if she were bleeding - but it wasn't blood that leaked out of her, not something that could be easily transfused. Instead she was losing her dreams.

You cheer my heart, who build as if Rome would be eternal.

I have a constant sweet tooth, so I like anything from the bakery, like cupcakes, cookies.

At fifteen, it [ "Follies"] didn't have any kind of resonance with me, this show about regret and middle age.

A constitutional state is like daily bread, like water to drink and air to breath, and the best thing about democracy is that it is the only system capable of securing the constitutional state.

Nobody is the author or producer of his own life story ... somebody began it and is its subject in the twofold sense, namely, its actor and sufferer ... but nobody is the author.

What a fortunate fellow I am, I kept telling myself. Nobody has ever had such a lovely time as this!