Television showrunners are a foolishly optimistic bunch.

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.

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.

I like to find ideas where the research is going to be fun.

If you lose money in business, you can still cover up the loss. If you lose time, the only thing you have by your side is wreckage.

Women are perfectly well aware that the more they seem to obey the more they rule.

There are a lot of people who that you may only nod to; it's better to stop and say hello.

The only intuitive interface is the nipple. Everything else is learned.

Common sense in religion is rare, and we are too often trying to be heroic instead of just ordinarily good and kind.

Regrets over the past should chasten the future.

There are nearly 30% of young people who are too fat. So let's take care of the zillions of the too fat before we talk about the percentage that's left.

Men are easily dealt with--but when you get the women started, you are in for it, you know.

I'm one of the few that comes from this vantage point: I never tried to get a record deal.

You're just so excited that you have this record deal or this movie opportunity that you don't stand up for yourself and say, This is what I want to do.