Salem is in part a story of what happens when a set of unanswerable questions meets a set of unquestioned answers.

It is a dangerous thing to have the same men in both the prophecy and the history business.

Like any oppressed people, they defined themselves by what offended them, which would give New England its gritty flavor and, it has been argued, America its independence.

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling falsehood.

When it comes to controlling human beings there is no better instrument than lies. Because, you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated.

If you can lead yourself when nobody is following, people will follow when you are not leading

True science is at length disencumbered of the empirical determinations which had accumulated in the course of many centuries.

It is not enough that poetry is agreeable, it should also be interesting.

Ambition without contribution is of no significance.

The mathematical expectation of the speculator is zero.

Working as a showrunner has made it tougher to watch other shows and movies.

Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

Labor is the true alchemist that beats out in patient transmutation the baser metals into gold.