The dance world was a big part of my growing up.

I like a certain style of show, I like a certain pace, I like a rhythm, I like a lot of comedy in with my drama.

People have nannies and big cars, and they want to go to Maui for Christmas. When there are those kind of stakes involved, people get ruthless.

Life doesn't tend to fix things or wrap them up in bows.

To me, crazy is not someone who has a creative vision and will fight for it.

When you write for a show that's not yours, your job is to hear the voices of the characters and write as best you can for those voices.

Every pilot I've ever written, I've fallen deeply and madly in love with. It's the only way I work.

TV is all about speed. TV is fast and furious. It's gunslinger territory.

These television shows that have 14 shots of somebody looking at each other with the wind blowing through their hair drive me insane.

If we based everything in Hollywood on who was a nice guy, holy moly, we would have no movies. No actors would work. This is not an industry that is ruled by kindness and generosity.

The whole world is out of time!

Anger gets you into trouble, ego keeps you in trouble.

Tendencies. Yougottendencies. Soevenifyoudideverythingoveragain, yourwholelife, yougottendenciestodojustwhatyoudid, alloveragain. -The Sheep Man.

Value what you have today, Rather than pricing it later....

What can I now do to use my misfortunes constructively, to turn my suffering to advantage by finding something worthwhile to do that I could not have done so well if these tragedies had not occurred?

This island is a hard place to survive and I fear that it has made everything resistant to the cruel hand of death.

I know a lot of friends and family who were Joe Montana fans, where it didn't matter how well Steve Young did. They weren't going to cheer for him because he wasn't Joe Montana.

The only difference between a mob and a trained army is organization.

Meditation is not emptiness. That is a way of trying to talk about something that is impossible to put into words. It is a world of fullness, if anything.

I'm not interested in athletics, I'm only interested in achievement. Fix your goal and work for it.

I had a connoisseur's... appreciation of fear.