People want to get immersed and lost in a world. They want to lean in and figure it out, and that's true of both of these shows. You don't know quite what it is, and that's great.

There's a level of action unlike anything else on television. AMC always makes distinctive television and I think that certainly fits that requirement.

Practice makes perfect, but nobody's perfect, so why practice?

Thoreau was an idiot.

It sometimes requires ignorance and arrogance to know something for sure.

A spirit is like a nucleus of an atom—invisible but infinite.

Now, as we close one chapter, the pen is gradually inking up, preparing itself to write the next.

The best way to achieve surprise quality is by avoiding cliches.

After initial needs are met—enough food, shelter, comfort—there is no correlation between money and happiness. That's a difficult thing for people to believe.

I am just a plain, common man.

Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.

It's dark already and I'm out here again, talking, telling the story to the quiet night.