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.

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.

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.

It's good to be unexpected with 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.

In our world, I rank music somewhere between hair ribbons and rainbows in terms of usefulness.

Never let your Enemies become your Advocates.” by A. K. Hasan

I keep lip gloss everywhere. It always makes me feel like I am slightly put together.

Poverty is a crime and the poor are terrorists

I want whoever has the title in a couple of months.

I play blues, sure, but don't call me a bluesman

Not the senses I have but what I do with them is my kingdom.

I ran away from St. Louis, and then I ran away from the United States, because of that terror of discrimination.

Riches should be admitted into our houses, but not into our hearts; we may take them into our possession, but not into our affections.

We are living and consuming more than we need, and this impacts our survival.