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

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.

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 want to believe there's a heaven. But I can't not believe there's a hell.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

We take a last look out of the window at the night, and I send a silent wish to everyone out there for this kind of warmth.

By his stripes you are healed.

Until Eve arrived, this was a man's world.

I grew up with a heavy diet of gospel, folk, and blues because those are kind of the cornerstones of traditional American music.

As a kid, I was obsessed with the Who. They were the most important band to me. Songs like "I'm One" helped me get through high school.

I didn't come to stay. I came to make a difference.

Finland must not be allowed to disappear off the map.

Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to create.

'Dilbert' became popular during the downsizing of the '90s, and job security was a major theme of the strip.