It's good to be unexpected with it.

Let's not forget how beautiful simply washing dishes can be.

In a book you can really talk about ideas and themes and characters in a deeper way than you can even on the screen.

Some roads you shouldn't go down. Because maps used to say there were dragons here. Now they don't. But that don't mean the dragons aren't there.

There's still nothing like a book to really make you feel like you've disappeared into a world.

There's only one note you ever get in broadcast and that's clarity.

If I have to write on an airplane or get up early to write or write late, you just gotta sit down. When you have the time, you have to be able to do it.

My feeling has always been if you entertain people, they give you permission to do more on a thematic or character level.

In the TV business, you've got to write fast, and someone will tell you, "Can you rewrite this episode before... 6 p.m.?" So that's when you rewrite it. You can't wait for the muse to show up.

In this way he used her as the North Star on a journey where you always want to go south. It was helpful, aligning himself in this way. It gave him something to tune to, like a violin to a piano.

Art exists not inside the piece itself, but inside the mind of the viewer.

People who speak less, they usually pray a lot. I think that a great nation is a nation of prayer.

Pray regularly for the members of your family.

I fell in love with his unchanging soul.

I wasn´t expecting to come home to you, but now that you´re here, I have no intention of letting you leave." Patch :D (p. 295)

I am more at peace than I've ever known myself to be. My connectedness to the world is more intense. I am more attentive to the humanity around me.

There are very interesting controversies within evolution; however, whether evolution occurs is not one of them. It definitely does.

Greater economic power will be in the hands of too few.

I accept that today may be imperfect... I accept that I may be as well. What I don't accept is that imperfection should be the crutch I use to excuse myself from participating in joy.

I wish I wrote more about the world at more distance from myself.

It is the soldier and the army, not parliamentary majorities and decisions, that have welded the German Empire together. I put my trust in the army.