It is cool to make a pilot because you get to do all the fun stuff, and then you get to leave when all the tough stuff starts.

Revenge is just a really good drive for drama and good action.

On Staten Island, there's a ship graveyard. I'm using that a lot, even for 'Under the Dome.' When I'm dissatisfied with a location scout, I go on Google Earth. It's an amazing tool.

it is easy to surpass a predecessor, but difficult to avoid being surpassed by a successor.

One must be convinced to convince, to have enthusiasm to stimulate the others.

Sometimes you have to fight with music.

Most bands have a two-year success rate. By the third year, it's sort of over. Here we are in Poison still together 26 years later.

I've always said that next to Imperial China, the South is the best place in the world to be an old lady.

If I were God, I'd work on the reach of empathy.

It's always about finding the right balance between answering some questions and raising new ones to keep your story going.

Loeb has been doing wonderfully patient work, exploring the American conscience from the inside. I regard him as something of a national treasure.

That liberty [is pure] which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone.

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.