I've never counted my chickens before they've hatched.

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.

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

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.

The Word that will change a man must first show the man who he really is.

Imagine all the wondrous things your arms might embrace if they weren't wrapped so tightly around your struggles.

I'm also the first straight woman to host this in 20 years, so, we finally made it, straight people.

Grumpy is her favorite dwarf.

The station was tight, aggressive ... the deejays at times sounding as if they were broadcasting at gunpoint.

Fluoride causes more human cancer, and causes it faster, than any other chemical.

I think part of being a good screenwriter is being as concise as possible.

Cannes is a very strange place. I tried to show up as best I could and to try not to be cynical.

I'd have to say, what inspires me is making sure my siblings have a good role model to look up to.

Let the men do their duty & the women will be such wonders; the female life lives from the light of the male: see a man's female dependants, you know the man.