I'm lucky enough that, in my career, people think that attaching my name to something helps it a little bit.

My first real showbiz job was on a Nickelodeon show called 'Hey, Dude.' That was my first real paid scriptwriting job.

No one sees themself as the villain in their story.

I do believe that we’re in a true golden era of television, and I think it started with Hill Street.

I had a great dad and we had a great relationship, but he's still a part of my life.

If you put people in a corner, you see what their character really is.

Over the course of television's history, I think fans have done more to save shows and support them than ruin them.

I can't help but always be thinking about ideas.

Being a showrunner is tough, but it is incredibly rewarding and it is, without a doubt, the best job I've ever had.

In the year 2006, a person can have sufficient intellectual and material resources to build a nuclear bomb and still believe that he will get seventy-two virgins in Paradise.

As if the night had said to me, ‘You are the night and the night alone understands you and enfolds you in its arms’ One with the shadows. Without nightmare. An inexplicable peace.

What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed?

I wanted to let my conscience go, and see how deep I fall.I wanted to let the devil take over, and see if I survive.I love you, Mriga. And for you, I will die.Tonight.

The kind of power mothers have is enormous.

I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical reasoner.

It's a challenge to demonstrate that you can prepare some really interesting food with humble ingredients.

All good writing leaves something unexpressed.

I'm a big zombie buff.

To please people is a great step towards persuading them.