I'm kind of a comic book geek, but I'm not really a super hero comic book geek.

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.

You have filled every fibre of my soul and the spaces in between

When grace has won the day, the worldling seeks the world to come.

O.K. I'm running out of appetite. Let this swirl- a bit like Crab Nebula- do for now.

You people are telling me what you think I want to know. I want to know what is actually happening.

Good is god, but better carries it.

I have seen things few of my countrymen have. The first time I went on an aeroplane I couldn't work out how the lavatories worked up in the sky.

Money is the seed of money.

clarity need not be equivalent to / readability. How readable is the world?

You know, I never did music for money. I did music to hear myself in the club, and to hear my creation on the radio.

It wasn't fair, but fairness was something you had to go get; it wasn't delivered like the mail.