You always think, no matter how many times you fail, that the next time you will succeed. Otherwise you wouldn't keep trying.

It's like an angel crying on your tongue.

To me, the difference between mythology and real history is that the real history has to tell a kind of believable story of how things happened. The physics has to work.

It gives me vertigo to watch TV dramas.

One of the advantages of series TV is that you can change your mind and plan things as you go.

The evil of storytelling is you're trying to make the audience complicit in murder - 'Kill the guy! Jump him!' And then once you've done it, it's like, 'I've killed this guy, now what?

There is a place for visionaries and the avant-garde in this world, but not at 9 o'clock on a network.

You name the TV psychic - they're con men.

The great thing about Gotham is it encompasses so many different worlds.

You can't be someone you're not on TV. You can in movies, but not on TV because you can't hide.

One of the tricks that you have to learn, with episodic TV, is you don't know how many years you're going to be blessed with.

If there had been an exercise I'd liked, would I have gotten this big in the first place?

If your glass is half empty, fill it up to be full.

I think I'm most proud of my family right now. I'm more into that then I've ever been. It also gives a new area to draw from in creativity with my songs.

Freedom [should not be] conceived negatively as exemption from social influences or situational constraints. Rather...positively as the exercise of self-influence to bring about desired results.

I think Maje typifies that French vibe where it's simple items that are very practical, very wearable but also like incredibly chic and expensive-looking.

There is no need to create. Genius comes only to those who know how to use their eyes and their intelligence.

Each strikeout brings me closer to my next homerun.

What you notice is the loneliness. Daniel started to isolate himself, because it hurt less than being pushed away.

To tell a woman not to talk too much was like telling Jesse James not to carry a gun, or a hen not to cackle.

All the men I did get to know, every single man of them, has filled me with but one desire: to lift my hand and bring it smashing down on his face.