People love a good mystery; I understand that.

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.

All we have, it seems to me, is the beauty of art and nature and life, and the love which that beauty inspires.

Sometimes you have to do things you don't want to do but you suck it up and do it anyway, and that's what teaches you humility, work ethic, responsibility, and follow-through.

Corporate governments are as corrupt as their law enforcement departments.

It's not always about the money.

Every song will be a video. Its going to be very spectacular.

I never take that for granted, but I'm always very aware that I'm one person and I can't wear everything.

Social media is like ancient Egypt: writing things on walls and worshiping cats.

Our poverty will be brought home to us to its full extent only after the war.

My saying is; We win and lose together. I think that really does apply to both my fans, family and the team.

Lean forward into your life. Begin each day as if it were on purpose.