I have now become so infatuated with television. I think television has become elegant.

Let there be a wide breadth of possible ways to create.

Anything you make has its own wavelength and its own sound. It's like a tuning fork, until the things that resonate are correct for it.

As you always discover when you make something, typically if your object isn't frivolous, people's relationship to it isn't frivolous.

If we don't keep people engaged, we're not going to move you. And if we move you, we've done something useful. That's what anybody who writes genre knows.

I think people underestimate the value of collaboration, especially for writers.

Love scenes are the hardest things in the world and if you enjoy them, that's wonderful, because nobody making them sits there and goes, 'Let's do that again tomorrow.'

Sometimes you see auteur TV shows and movies, and those are great.

The idea of starting with that Kanye [West] song is declarative. It says, "This is the kind of story we're telling."

What happens is that the experience of writers working together and the idea of creative collaboration is so delightful, but it has been relegated to TV.

Things work out the way they're supposed to.

The right people have the right mindsets, they are high-positive, high-innovative, high-influential and high-mature.

Although my Dad was a talented calligrapher and both of my younger brothers were successful, I was the first one in my family to graduate from high school.

Hot weather brings out snakes and slaveholders, and I like one class of the venomous creatures as little as I do the other.

Disagreement is a rare achievement, and most of what is called disagreement is simply confusion.

Bob Dylan was the source of pop music's unpredictability in the Sixties. Never as big a record-seller as commonly imagined, his importance was first aesthetic and social, and then as an influence.

Tranquilizers to overcome angst, pep pills to wake us up, life pills to ensure blissful sterility. I will lift up my ears unto the pills whence cometh my help.

Why are you so enchanted by this world, when a mine of gold lies within you?

As a child, I copied Duerer drawings and Bruegel.

Few are fit to be entrusted with themselves.