I think that we're moving into this new phase of television where audiences are really embracing stories with a beginning, middle, and end.

It's a very artistic process to translate and adapt a book into a series.

As a writer, I always think about who my prototype actors are, in my brain. It's helpful, as a writer, to think about that.

I think that the best television now is giving you a three-act experience.

Tragedy is a great storytelling form. It worked extremely well for Shakespeare. It worked extremely well for Jim Cameron with Titanic.

It's entirely possible that the notion of what is the past, what is the present and what is the future, could change.

The Following and Hannibal are really well made, but the tone is very consistently dark.

You have to be able to get inside the heads of the characters and completely sympathize and understand them.

As hard as you try to write a good script and you have great intentions, this alchemy has to occur.

Rage wrapped itself around her like a tourniquet, keeping her alive even as it condemned a part of her to atrophy.

The idea of not being content with any level of success, doesn't by any means call for the absence of gratitude for your daily blessings.

Lust arrives as an angel disguised as love, but it's still lust, not love.

I think very long and hard about every possibly offensive joke I want to make. I really hate mean humor and would hate to make anyone reading my jokes feel truly bad.

You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions.

It's an incredible rise to stardom. At 17 you're more likely to get a call from Michael Jackson than England manager Sven Goran Eriksson.

Families are the bedrock of our society.

Grace saved my life; it can revolutionize yours.

The profession to which we belong, once venerated...-has become corrupt and degenerate to the forfeiture of its social position.

Worship offered with stale flowers and an unclean mind is of no value.