I'm always trying to gain and keep the audience's respect. I always want them to know that the show doesn't think they're stupid for watching.

Find your voice, shout it from the rooftops, and keep doing it until the people that are looking for you find you.

Storytelling comes naturally to humans, but since we live in an unnatural world, we sometimes need a little help doing what we'd naturally do.

Once upon a time, something happened, and it was better than something not happening. The end.

All [tv] shows are like cigarettes. You watch two, you have a higher chance of watching three. They're all addictive.

Don't be so hard on yourself, don't put pressure on yourself, life is just a chain of experiments and results, and you'll be perfect when you're dead.

I am a collaborator with everyone who agrees that I need to be in control. I happily collaborate with my loyalists.

I always try to use my medium, and if I get into a normal sitcom-writing contest with normal sitcom writers, I'm going to lose.

I feel like my life has always been the 'Hey Look at Me Show.' I'm not apologetic about that.

Pretty sad. Pretty lonely. But that's how I prefer it? I quess? I guess. It's a good guess. It's the best quess ever.

The public's perception of your show is what it is, and you don't get to complain how people perceive your show or talk about it.

...that out of the quarrel with others we produce rhetoric, matter for the editorial page, while out of the quarrel with ourselves we create art.

In every life, there is always a journey that is unforgettable and a path that can never be traced.

Love is often gentle, desire always a rage.

The Daily Mail can't say 'asylum-seeker' without saying 'foreign criminal' in the same sentence. I'm sure it's practically editorial policy.

It's very important to know the history and region going into it.

Strange that we all defend our wrongs with more vigor than we do our rights.

Just as the body cannot exist without blood, so the soul needs the matchless and pure strength of faith.

Beginnings are sudden, but also insidious. They creep up on you sideways, they keep to the shadows, they lurk unrecognized. Then, later, they spring.

..As always, she was carrying the washing. Rudy was carrying two buckets of cold water, or as he put it, two buckets of future ice.

In some ways we live in a world where things appear to be very logical, very rational, and mechanical aspects of our world are rather scientific and rather straightforward.