I don't want my writing to be so unique that when you apply it to different genres, it seems like the previous show that people know you from.

The payment for sins can be delayed. But they cant be avoided.

You can make a good show, but you still need some magical alchemy to get people to watch.

I'm perfectly happy to color within the network lines when I have to.

I still feel driven to try to make great shows and to make each episode great.

Obviously there are different standards and practices that are allowed on cable versus network. You just have to embrace what your network is going to allow.

The worst thing you can do is end up with a network show on cable or end up with a cable show on network.

I've always read a lot of historical books and I'm a big fan of documentaries, and I've always thought of ways to do it.

I think the bar is higher these days in terms of audience expectations of authenticity.

I've spent a lot of time thinking about what the audience would want. That's my job, is to anticipate ahead of the audience.

There will always be economic pressure to make hits, identify hits, and then exploit hits. And you're going to exploit them with as many episodes as you probably can.

Did you ever wonder if the person in the puddle is real, and you're just a reflection of him?

To prepare for the mountains develop mind, body, will and spirit as strong as a sword, soft as a pillow and fluid as water.

Living on purpose requires us to find what we love fiercely, give it all we've got and then pass it on, as if it were a torch, to those who follow

Clothes therefore, must be the insignia of the superiority of man over all other animals, for surely there could be no other reason for wearing the hideous things

Always admit when you're wrong. You'll save thousands in therapy... and a few friendships too.

He who has love, is in God, and God is in him, for God is love.

As a chess player one has to be able to control one's feelings, one has to be as cold as a machine.

Some people there's no getting over.

The actual state of our knowledge is always provisional and... there must be, beyond what is actually known, immense new regions to discover.

A genial hearth, a hospitable board, and a refined rusticity.