It gives me vertigo to watch TV dramas.

It's like an angel crying on your tongue.

To me, the difference between mythology and real history is that the real history has to tell a kind of believable story of how things happened. The physics has to work.

One of the advantages of series TV is that you can change your mind and plan things as you go.

You always think, no matter how many times you fail, that the next time you will succeed. Otherwise you wouldn't keep trying.

The evil of storytelling is you're trying to make the audience complicit in murder - 'Kill the guy! Jump him!' And then once you've done it, it's like, 'I've killed this guy, now what?

There is a place for visionaries and the avant-garde in this world, but not at 9 o'clock on a network.

You name the TV psychic - they're con men.

The great thing about Gotham is it encompasses so many different worlds.

You can't be someone you're not on TV. You can in movies, but not on TV because you can't hide.

One of the tricks that you have to learn, with episodic TV, is you don't know how many years you're going to be blessed with.

It's a conflict of parallels.

We are selling ourselves very short by funneling our energies into what the traditional perception is of academic and monetary success.

Non-Newtonian calculi... have considerable potential as alternative approaches to traditional problems.

The sensation of writing a book is the sensation of spinning, blinded by love and daring. It is the sensation of rearing and peering from the bent tip of a grass blade, looking for a route.

For an author just starting out, you've got to deliver the goods every year or sooner or people will forget you or you will lose momentum. There is a contract that exists between author and reader.

If there weren't luck involved, I would win every time.

As Christians, our duty is to pray for them and ask the Lord to give them the grace of penance, so that they don't die with a corrupt heart, because otherwise the dogs of hell will take their blood.

Some folks believe that global warming doesn't exist and that the environment doesn't need any help. I tend not to listen to them.

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say 'I'. They don't think 'I'. They think 'we'; they think 'team'.

I'm a conservative kind of person. I don't think rightwing is quite the same thing. But I acknowledge my conservatism of temperament.