In a landscape where a 2.8 [demo rating] keeps you on the air, you can maintain that just by treating your fans with respect.

It's a nightmare of editing. That's what I do all day.

By engaging someone for five minutes, you can make them a lifelong fan.

Part of walking the line as showrunner is trying to please people and still be true to what you believe creatively.

Fans can't ruin shows. Only creators can.

I am done with the hour-long [true crime] shows: "She was a happy married wife. Everything was perfect. Until the trip to Aruba."

When you're on a staff, it's not your job to write what you think is funny. It's your job to write what the person who created the show thinks is funny.

Until I created my own shows, I had nothing but bad experiences on staffs.

Any time you try to be edgy just for the sake of being edgy, that's the worst way.

The writing is what's most important to me.

With showrunning, the more successful you get, the more you're pulled away from the writing.

No man is a complete ruler or dictator. He is only the mouthpiece for the wishes of his followers. As long as he expresses those wishes, he leads them.

Vegetarians are cool. All I eat are vegetarians - except for the occasional mountain lion steak.

For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.

It's lovely having grass and trees and flowers(Of course, at times, mosquitoes are a pest).Yes, life is life out here in Rangely Towers(Of course Some People like the city best)!

To convey one’s mood in seventeen syllables is very diffic

Never complain. Never explain.

I want men to be more chic - and Japanese style has that kind of sophisticated elegance.

There is, it seems to us, At best, only a limited value In the knowledge derived from experience.

The word we have in Korea for K-Pop is 'Gaio.' And I guess it's a huge umbrella term. Basically it's like saying Coldplay and Kanye West, or Eminem and Celine Dion, are the same genre.

I was regarded as the school freak which further reinforced a lot of inhibitions and doubts I had about myself. I was a shy, frightened teenager for a long time.