The writing is what's most important to me.

It's a nightmare of editing. That's what I do all day.

By engaging someone for five minutes, you can make them a lifelong fan.

Part of walking the line as showrunner is trying to please people and still be true to what you believe creatively.

Fans can't ruin shows. Only creators can.

In a landscape where a 2.8 [demo rating] keeps you on the air, you can maintain that just by treating your fans with respect.

I am done with the hour-long [true crime] shows: "She was a happy married wife. Everything was perfect. Until the trip to Aruba."

When you're on a staff, it's not your job to write what you think is funny. It's your job to write what the person who created the show thinks is funny.

Until I created my own shows, I had nothing but bad experiences on staffs.

Any time you try to be edgy just for the sake of being edgy, that's the worst way.

With showrunning, the more successful you get, the more you're pulled away from the writing.

My senses are alive with pleasure and joy.

What was once thought, so it shall become.

No, I'm putting it away, trying to buy a house for my family. The goal is to use the money to move into a big house, so my daughter can have a garden.

I would pay snakes to bite her.

Man was not then considered a good goldsmith unless he could draw well.

There were the fairy tales my father told to me at bedtime. All the standards. I thought my father invented wolves.

Housework is the only activity at which men are allowed to be consistently inept because they are thought to be so competent at everything else.

I also became a poet, and for one year lived in a Paradise of my own creation; I imagined that I also might obtain a niche in the temple where the names of Homer and Shakespeare are consecrated.

Time has the same effect on the mind as on the face; the predominant passion and the strongest feature become more conspicuous from the others retiring.

To approach the stranger is to invite the unexpected, release a new force, let the genie out of the bottle. It is to start a new train of events that is beyond your control.