The world's an angry place these days. Let's just not take it out on each other.

I think when you do a season of television you go into it going I'd like the season premiere needs to be amazing. The season finale needs to be amazing.

Probably the biggest challenge is actors, no matter how talented the actor is they don't have the capability of being in more than one place than one particular time, which is very vexing.

I love doing meta-humor, as long as it doesn't become too distracting and it's subtle.

Time away from thinking about something is as valuable - perhaps even more so - than directly thinking about it.

Your subconscious is always working in the background, unlocking things and solving problems.

The guy who sits at the keyboard and types is so much smarter than I am. I think I got into writing so that I could spend as much time with that guy as possible.

Do what you love and you'll always love what you do. I've found that that's true most of the time.

At some point if you're a professional writer, no matter what, it always comes down to you staring at the blank page by yourself.

There should be nothing I can't live without.

At the end of the day, I think the only way to do the kind of job a writer does is push everything aside and just ultimately sit down and do the work.

You can’t go back, Ever. You can’t change the past. It just is. . . . This is our destiny. Not yours.

We are a motley bunch. But we more than make up for it with tenacity." ~ Ralston to Simon

Oh, that this too, too sullied flesh would melt, Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew, Or that the Everlasting had not fixed. His canon 'gainst self-slaughter!

The hack is like a politician who consults the polls before he takes a position. He's a demagogue. He panders.

My entire soul is a cry, and all my work is a commentary on that cry.

Growing old is compulsory - growing up is optional.

Learning to expect problems saved me from a lot of wasted energy. Winners see problems as just another way to prove themselves.

It is true that I am carrying out various methods of treatment recommended by doctors and dentists in the hope of dying in the remote future in perfect health.

All I've done is work... I arrived in Los Angeles in my early 20s and I've been pounding the pavement ever since.

By the time Apple's Macintosh operating system finally falls into the public domain, there will be no machine that could possibly run it. The term of copyright for software is effectively unlimited.