Family don't end with blood

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.

We crafted everything that hurt us into art.

Most people have the blindness of new-born things - a not-incurable blindness, the sight being there but its use not known.

Almightiness and wisdom combined will make no failures.

Walk towards the light, put it on your head and then crush your shadow that hides under your feet

We sometimes underestimate the influence of little things

Everything I do is under scrutiny. And one of the things different, I think, about me is that my life has been a very, very open book.

You get all these friends just when you don’t need friends anymore.

Ho said, 'I do not grieve because my feet have been cut off. I grieve because a precious jewel is dubbed a mere stone, and a man of integrity is called a deceiver. This is why I weep.'

Rose! Thou art the sweetest flower that ever drank the amber shower: Even the Gods, who walk the sky, are amourous of thy scented sigh.

Everything starts with a lie and ends with an apology.