I think when you do a season of television you go into it going I'd like the season premiere needs to be amazing. The season finale needs to be amazing.

Probably the biggest challenge is actors, no matter how talented the actor is they don't have the capability of being in more than one place than one particular time, which is very vexing.

I love doing meta-humor, as long as it doesn't become too distracting and it's subtle.

Time away from thinking about something is as valuable - perhaps even more so - than directly thinking about it.

Your subconscious is always working in the background, unlocking things and solving problems.

The guy who sits at the keyboard and types is so much smarter than I am. I think I got into writing so that I could spend as much time with that guy as possible.

Do what you love and you'll always love what you do. I've found that that's true most of the time.

The world's an angry place these days. Let's just not take it out on each other.

At some point if you're a professional writer, no matter what, it always comes down to you staring at the blank page by yourself.

There should be nothing I can't live without.

At the end of the day, I think the only way to do the kind of job a writer does is push everything aside and just ultimately sit down and do the work.

Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand.

The snow was too light to stay, the ground too warm to keep it. And the strange spring snow fell only in that golden moment of dawn, the turning of the page between night and day.

There is already enough chattering nonsense on the ground. Do we really need aviaries in pressurised tin cans at 30, 000 feet as well ?

I want to have a lasting experience of God.

It was just one day and it's been just one year. But maybe one day is enough. Maybe one hour is enough. Maybe time has nothing at all to do with it". Willem

A guy as great as Brett Favre has been for the length of time he's been, you would hope that he would be able to leave the game with a positive flavor in his mouth.

It's not hard to get a girl if I wanted one. But it doesn't mean you want it, and even if you did, you're certainly not going to rub it in anybody's face.

I look for fun and smarts - a witty, strong sexy woman.

Does anybody who gave up smoking to save a pound a week have a pound at the end of the week? Not on your life.

People could not get enough of what they had lost, even if they no longer wanted it.