I like stories with a collision of disparate tones. Look at 'Shameless' or 'House of Lies'. They go from big, silly, and comedic to very real dramatic moments in the wink of an eye.

I like shows that are surprising and not predictable. That have deep, rich characters that are fully formed.

I actually have very girly taste in television. I like a chicky relationship show probably more than anything. I really like 'Project Runway'.

The enemy of good television is boredom and predictability.

I never yet heard of a useless thing that was not ground out ofexistence by evolution sooner or later. Did you? And pain gets needless.

Gratitude is born in hearts that take time to count up past mercies.

Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.

If you have butterflies in your stomach ask them into your heart.

Don't mistake the Russia you want to exist for the Russia that there actually is. Be realistic.

Human hopes and human creeds; have their root in human needs.

Lycurgus, Numa, Moses, Jesus Christ, Mohammed, all these great rogues, all these great thought-tyrants, knew how to associate the divinities they fabricated with their own boundless ambition.

Grief is characterized much more by waves of feeling that lessen and reoccur, it's less like stages and more like different states of feeling.

A motion to adjourn is always in order.

You either master money, or, on some level, money masters you.