I was playing the game where I was going to be a great TV or film writer some day and there was nothing else that I thought about, including other people.

Find your voice, shout it from the rooftops, and keep doing it until the people that are looking for you find you.

Storytelling comes naturally to humans, but since we live in an unnatural world, we sometimes need a little help doing what we'd naturally do.

Once upon a time, something happened, and it was better than something not happening. The end.

All [tv] shows are like cigarettes. You watch two, you have a higher chance of watching three. They're all addictive.

Don't be so hard on yourself, don't put pressure on yourself, life is just a chain of experiments and results, and you'll be perfect when you're dead.

I am a collaborator with everyone who agrees that I need to be in control. I happily collaborate with my loyalists.

I always try to use my medium, and if I get into a normal sitcom-writing contest with normal sitcom writers, I'm going to lose.

I feel like my life has always been the 'Hey Look at Me Show.' I'm not apologetic about that.

Pretty sad. Pretty lonely. But that's how I prefer it? I quess? I guess. It's a good guess. It's the best quess ever.

The public's perception of your show is what it is, and you don't get to complain how people perceive your show or talk about it.

Uplifting God’s Kingdom on earth should be our life’s mandate as believers

For the most part, what we think of as 'I' is nothing more than a whole heap of conditioning.

It never hurts to be nice" - Anne Heinrich

All old music was modern once, and much more of the music of yesterday already sounds more old-fashioned than works which were written three centuries ago.

The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.

I'm always glad to see somebody rethink something rather than reproduce something I did.

It's our job - as parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles - to find books our kids are going to like.

Occasional war is one of the rigorous instruments in the hands of Providence to give tone to the character of nations.

Economic distress, political pressure, and social obloquy already drive us from our homes and from our graves. The Jews are already constantly shifting from place to place.

Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it's done right.