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.

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

When you were in love, you were capable of learning everything and of knowing things you had never dared even to think, because love was the key to understanding all of the mysteries.

The first few hours in the cell were quite stimulating. I'd never been in a prison cell before and was quite enjoying the experience.

Traveling is no fool's errand to him who carries his eyes and itinerary along with him.

Then God spoke to me and said: People say only good things about Christmas. If they want to say something bad, they whisper.

I also maintain that clear knowledge of natural science must be acquired, in the first instance, through mastery of medicine alone.

While cares will drop off like autumn leaves.

My favorite movies growing up were things like 'The Wizard of Oz,' but as I got older, I really began to admire people like Steven Soderbergh.

You learn from the actors that you're working with. I've taken a lot from all of them.

Struggling to stay in the middle class, and I love that. That's me and my dad and my family.

Racism is cruel and unjust. It cuts deep and lingers long in individual and community memories. And it is not a thing of the past....We all have a duty to do what we can to turn this around.