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

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.

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.

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

A goal is important, but what you become to achieve that goal is much more important.

I write because I believe

Lincoln bought a German language newspaper.

The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society.

PhD, MFA, self-taught - the only things you must have to become a writer are the stamina to continue and a wily, cagey heart in the face of extremity, failure, and success.

If they [Mexicans] touch the hair of the head of one of our citizens, tell him [Commodore Dallas] to batter down and destroy their town and exterminate the inhabitants from the face of the earth!

The life and fellowship of the church is to be a foretaste of life in the Kingdom of God.

Want to impress others? Talk about your successes. Want to impact others? Talk about your failures.

Tension is the great integrity.

Not everyone who started with you will finish with you. Be willing to go without them if you have to.