Part of walking the line as showrunner is trying to please people and still be true to what you believe creatively.

It's a nightmare of editing. That's what I do all day.

By engaging someone for five minutes, you can make them a lifelong fan.

Fans can't ruin shows. Only creators can.

In a landscape where a 2.8 [demo rating] keeps you on the air, you can maintain that just by treating your fans with respect.

I am done with the hour-long [true crime] shows: "She was a happy married wife. Everything was perfect. Until the trip to Aruba."

When you're on a staff, it's not your job to write what you think is funny. It's your job to write what the person who created the show thinks is funny.

Until I created my own shows, I had nothing but bad experiences on staffs.

Any time you try to be edgy just for the sake of being edgy, that's the worst way.

The writing is what's most important to me.

With showrunning, the more successful you get, the more you're pulled away from the writing.

We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.

Good fortune often occurs when you stop expecting life to present opportunities to you and you start presenting opportunities to life.

there are no houses to wife. only window seats to occupy when the weather needs changing & waters to flow past our ankles on Sundays as we fish.

I think that the job of poetry, its political job, is to refresh the idea of justice, which is going dead in us all the time.

The same sun that hardens the clay softens the wax.

Child of God, you cost Christ too much for him to forget you.

Winning and losing are both very temporary things. Having done one or the other, you move ahead. Gloating over a victory or sulking over a loss is a good way to stand still.

Buy gold and sit on it. That is the key to success.

Autumn finally arrived. And when it did, I came to a decision. Something had to give: I couldn't keep on living like this.

When the Lord's white sheep become dirty gray, all black sheep feel more comfortable.