There are so many shows out there, so you really need to work hard to separate yourself and cut through the static.

Kids aint supposed to be grateful! They're supposed to eat your food, break your heart.

It's hard asking someone with a broken heart to fall in love again.

I've had a lifelong obsession with urban legends and American folklore.

Television showrunners are a foolishly optimistic bunch.

Beyond all our Blackberries and iPhones, we're dangerously separated from our food and water supplies.

We are definitely living in the butterfly effect theory, where any change that is made in the past is going to have a very logical cause-and-effect ramification of the present.

I've always said at the beginning of every single season of the show when I was running the show in the writers' room, "This is the last season, so let's smoke 'em if we've got 'em."

When I am kicking around show ideas, or really any idea, usually an image comes to me. I don't really start with a character or a logline like, "What if the electricity turned off?"

Your half-caff double vanilla latte is getting cold over here, Francis.

People simply don't make eye contact anymore.

The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars / But in ourselves.” Easy enough to say when you’re a Roman nobleman (or Shakespeare!), but there is no shortage of fault to be found amid our stars.

It is not that practice makes perfect but that practice is perfect, combining effort with an openness to grace.

I didn't even know I was a feminist until I read it on the back of one of my own books.

The fans are probably the only thing I can really see that's real.

When you come from nothing, you're basically just trying to get escape velocity, which means you and your family don't have to worry about being broke and that's all I ever cared about.

Dictators lead through fear; good coaches do not.

The worth of a faith does not consist in the clarity with which it is stated but in the steadfastness with which it is defended.

Even somebody like The Black Keys or Royal Blood, they all have this original roots base to what they do.

Obedience is the only virtue that plants the other virtues in the heart and preserves them after they have been planted.

Percy frowned "You have a feast for tuna?