I'm perfectly happy to color within the network lines when I have to.

The payment for sins can be delayed. But they cant be avoided.

You can make a good show, but you still need some magical alchemy to get people to watch.

I still feel driven to try to make great shows and to make each episode great.

Obviously there are different standards and practices that are allowed on cable versus network. You just have to embrace what your network is going to allow.

The worst thing you can do is end up with a network show on cable or end up with a cable show on network.

I've always read a lot of historical books and I'm a big fan of documentaries, and I've always thought of ways to do it.

I think the bar is higher these days in terms of audience expectations of authenticity.

I've spent a lot of time thinking about what the audience would want. That's my job, is to anticipate ahead of the audience.

There will always be economic pressure to make hits, identify hits, and then exploit hits. And you're going to exploit them with as many episodes as you probably can.

I would say on a creative level I put a lot of pressure on myself.

Vulnerability is strength. It is being honest about who you are & about your experiences.

It is okay to date and experience all the excitement, thrills, and passion that romance offers, but let the love of your life be yourself.

We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes.

There is likely to be beauty wherever proportion exists.

I enjoy punk, the attitude as well as the music, but I don't feel like I have to be a carbon copy of it and invite all this controversy, just to be punk rock.

I don't take myself seriously any more. Sometimes I just garden in my knickers and platform shoes.

I am glad to have found a readership, but one can’t write only what is likely to sell. A writer is not a shopkeeper. A writer creates an imaginary world that he transmits to others.

A dream acting role would be Matt Damon in the Bourne series. I would love to do something like that!

Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view and demand that they respect yours.

There will come into every life moments of despair and the need for direction from a divine source-even an unspoken plea for help.