I've had a lifelong obsession with urban legends and American folklore.

Kids aint supposed to be grateful! They're supposed to eat your food, break your heart.

It's hard asking someone with a broken heart to fall in love again.

Television showrunners are a foolishly optimistic bunch.

Beyond all our Blackberries and iPhones, we're dangerously separated from our food and water supplies.

We are definitely living in the butterfly effect theory, where any change that is made in the past is going to have a very logical cause-and-effect ramification of the present.

I've always said at the beginning of every single season of the show when I was running the show in the writers' room, "This is the last season, so let's smoke 'em if we've got 'em."

When I am kicking around show ideas, or really any idea, usually an image comes to me. I don't really start with a character or a logline like, "What if the electricity turned off?"

Your half-caff double vanilla latte is getting cold over here, Francis.

People simply don't make eye contact anymore.

I like to find ideas where the research is going to be fun.

Some things you cannot stop happening.

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.

How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?

Never inject a man into the top, if it can be avoided. In a big organization, to have to do that, I think, is a reflection on management, Of course there are always exceptional cases.

Science is far from a perfect instrument of knowledge. It's just the best we have.

If I were dead and buried And I heard your voice, Beneath the sod My heart of dust Would still rejoice.

Unfortunately, there's no greater rhyme or reason as to why it would be me. And since there is no answer as to why me, it's not a question I feel really entitled to ask.

Gardening is full of mistakes, almost all of them pleasant and some of them actually instructive.

Like Adam, formed from clay, children are formed from the biological material of which they are made or by the hands of their parents.

Emperors are vain and useless things.