It's always better to go personal and painful than to go big.

Kids aint supposed to be grateful! They're supposed to eat your food, break your heart.

It's hard asking someone with a broken heart to fall in love again.

I've had a lifelong obsession with urban legends and American folklore.

Television showrunners are a foolishly optimistic bunch.

Beyond all our Blackberries and iPhones, we're dangerously separated from our food and water supplies.

We are definitely living in the butterfly effect theory, where any change that is made in the past is going to have a very logical cause-and-effect ramification of the present.

I've always said at the beginning of every single season of the show when I was running the show in the writers' room, "This is the last season, so let's smoke 'em if we've got 'em."

When I am kicking around show ideas, or really any idea, usually an image comes to me. I don't really start with a character or a logline like, "What if the electricity turned off?"

Your half-caff double vanilla latte is getting cold over here, Francis.

People simply don't make eye contact anymore.

if you don’t try at anything, you can’t fail… it takes back bone to lead the life you want

With one kiss, my life had been altered. It would follow a different path now. One where a woman owned my heart.

Thinking big is a skill all entrepreneurs should be focused on cultivating.

One cannot both feast and become rich.

Trouthe is the hyest thyng that man may kepe.

Only what I'm not giving is what is lacking in any situation

I love to read. I wish I could advise more people to read. There's a whole other world in books.

... but the greatest wisdom is blinded by the glare of vanity.

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your feet.

I have no question: It is enough, I know what fixed the station Of star and cloud. And knowing all, I cry. . . .