I still feel driven to try to make great shows and to make each episode great.

The payment for sins can be delayed. But they cant be avoided.

You can make a good show, but you still need some magical alchemy to get people to watch.

I'm perfectly happy to color within the network lines when I have to.

Obviously there are different standards and practices that are allowed on cable versus network. You just have to embrace what your network is going to allow.

The worst thing you can do is end up with a network show on cable or end up with a cable show on network.

I've always read a lot of historical books and I'm a big fan of documentaries, and I've always thought of ways to do it.

I think the bar is higher these days in terms of audience expectations of authenticity.

I've spent a lot of time thinking about what the audience would want. That's my job, is to anticipate ahead of the audience.

There will always be economic pressure to make hits, identify hits, and then exploit hits. And you're going to exploit them with as many episodes as you probably can.

I would say on a creative level I put a lot of pressure on myself.

Less emphasis on inventories, I think, may tend to dampen business cycles, because business cycles are typically in the grasp of inventory cycles and heavy industry cycles.

You can't respect yourself if you're afraid to be who you are.

We all keep dreaming, and luckily, dreams come true.

Teachers, who educate children, deserve more honour than parents, who merely gave them birth; for the latter provided mere life, while the former ensure a good life.

I had a hat. It was not all a hat,-Part of the brim was gone:Yet still I wore it on.

As someone from the working class I was always interested in Russia and China and everything that related to the working class, even though I was playing the capitalist game.

It will never be about our love for God. It will always be about His magnificent love for us.

When a rap song glorifies violence, death and sadness and loss is inflicted because of the violence.

It is the climbing of the mountain that makes the view from the top so breathtaking.

Books, too, begin like the week – with a day of rest in memory of their creation. The preface is their Sunday.