I want to believe there's a heaven. But I can't not believe there's a hell.

Let the audience put 2 and 2 together so that it comes up with 4. Let them do that themselves, and they'll love you forever.

If you’re too rigid in your thinking you may miss some wonderful opportunities for storytelling.

I wanna keep being productive and creative.

It's weird how with a TV show, you don't have just the one ending - you have the many.

I'm not a big internet guy - not because I'm not interested in what people have to say, but probably because I'm too interested.

I love cable, but not because you can show boobies and say the F-word. I love it because you have more time to think. That's the blessing of it.

It's often the case with successful TV shows that they kind of inadvertently live on past their prime. It's best to leave the audience wanting more.

People want what they want, for as long as they want it, then tastes change and something else works.

TV is where writers get to tell interesting stories. Because writers, for the most part, run television.

What's so great about making television is that it's a collaborative beast. It's created by a great many hands belonging to a great many people.

(On being in a position of leadership) Even if it's your dog, you've got authority over somebody. Start treating him better.

Ya were going to turn me into a rat? Had I known that I wouldn’t have tried to turn ya into a snake.

We have invented the literature because the reality wasn’t imaginative enough and we also wanted to be alone, at least for a while!

Our media and political system has turned into a mutual protection racket.

The cutting of primeval forest and other disasters, fueled by the demands of growing human populations, are the overriding threat to biological diversity everywhere.

One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.

When you begin to give value to the world, somehow the people you affect will find a way to tell you. Even if it takes a couple of years.

I wanna make stuff that sonically sounds really good. I don't wanna make a song about how people think I'm this when I'm really that. I don't wanna make a song about how I grew up broke.

I'd love to do a talk show. But I'm too busy for it. It's just too much work.

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