"I'm going to put out something that I believe in, or I'm not going to do it." I'm really scared of putting out a product that people will say, "Oh, that's not as good as the other thing."

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.

Jesus Christ is the joy of the journey.

Fiction cannot betray the truth. Though it must try, " Ernest Hemingway in "Blast".

Life is given to everyone as a demonstration of God’s trust.

True morality consists not in following the beaten track, but in finding the true path for ourselves, and fearlessly following it.

Which way will the sunflower turn surrounded by millions of suns?

I simply think God is greater than our weakness. In fact, I think it is our weakness that reveals how great God is.

How wondrous familiar is a fool!

I must admit, the constant invasion of privacy was becoming a real concern. Ive been asked for autographs while Ive been doing laps in the pool and even in the toilet!

Unfortunately, I think music videos are a dying breed because there is no money in them.

Yoga is a great thing and meditation is also great to get connected to yourself more.