[Making meth] is a complex process. The truth of it is that we live in a post-Google world where you can find six recipes for meth in 30 seconds on a search engine.

Let the audience put 2 and 2 together so that it comes up with 4. Let them do that themselves, and they'll love you forever.

If you’re too rigid in your thinking you may miss some wonderful opportunities for storytelling.

I wanna keep being productive and creative.

It's weird how with a TV show, you don't have just the one ending - you have the many.

I'm not a big internet guy - not because I'm not interested in what people have to say, but probably because I'm too interested.

I love cable, but not because you can show boobies and say the F-word. I love it because you have more time to think. That's the blessing of it.

It's often the case with successful TV shows that they kind of inadvertently live on past their prime. It's best to leave the audience wanting more.

People want what they want, for as long as they want it, then tastes change and something else works.

TV is where writers get to tell interesting stories. Because writers, for the most part, run television.

What's so great about making television is that it's a collaborative beast. It's created by a great many hands belonging to a great many people.

I have lived a long life and had many troubles, most of which never happened

Just remember, the difference between being good versus being great is just a few points, inches, or seconds.

...Mary, fresh with feminist appropriations, has the potential to undergird women’s reformations.

A call to duty, a call for service.

Johnny can get down and Johnny can throw up, but Johnny can't read.

I try to do stuff that I'm more passionate about, more than just like being all over the place doing different sneakers.

Those who go ahead provide a little light into the unknown.

I wouldn't say that my experience making it [the Waitress] was necessarily uplifting, but watching it with an audience, I was surprised at how hopeful it was at the end.

I'm not worried about the weekend, I'm worried about Saturday.

I am no more humble than my talents require.