Television is very different than working on film. With films, you get to develop a set of characters, and then, at the end of the film, you have to throw them away.

If you're good at something, never do it for free.

The secret to all drama, film, TV, or books - the thing that people respond to most, and the thing I find myself as a viewer feeling most interested in, is the idea of change.

We used to look up at the sky and wonder at our place in the stars. Now we just look down, and worry about our place in the dirt.

We live in a moment in history in which our privacy may not be important.

Time is an absurdity. An abstraction. The only thing that matters is this moment.

Believing the lie that time will heal all wounds is just a nice way of saying that time deadens us.

We are the only instrument for understanding the universe. We have to ground it in human beings.

Every man is a mob, a chain gang of idiots.

I was struck by - Einstein's a fascinating figure who didn't have any instruments that he used, he didn't use telescopes, he used his mind to try to understand the universe.

Time eventually convinces most of us that forgiveness is a virtue. Conveniently, cowardice and forgiveness look identical at a certain distance.

I’m not going to die because I failed as someone else. I’m going to succeed as myself.

Your smile breaks my heart, And your laughter burns my skin, And if I had to tell you how I feel, That's where I'd begin.

The demons you need to get rid of are inside. But they seem out there because you left the window open.

I'll joke all day, but once I get in the gym, I'm going to work hard.

Instead of using brushes all the time, try a palette knife to paint.

The people that I admire have a wonderful balance of self-belief and humility.

The one problem with the Internet for journalists who like doing long form is that any story that's going to involve 16 screens on the web page... that's asking a lot of people.

Listening to someone who brews their own beer is like listening to a religious fanatic talk about the day he saw the light.

The power to distinguish between person and performance and to communicate intrinsic worth flows naturally out of our own sense of intrinsic worth.

I definitely get star-struck over - not so much actors and celebrities because I see them around and I work with some of them - but it's more things I'm not involved in that I get star-struck about.