There will always be economic pressure to make hits, identify hits, and then exploit hits. And you're going to exploit them with as many episodes as you probably can.

The payment for sins can be delayed. But they cant be avoided.

You can make a good show, but you still need some magical alchemy to get people to watch.

I'm perfectly happy to color within the network lines when I have to.

I still feel driven to try to make great shows and to make each episode great.

Obviously there are different standards and practices that are allowed on cable versus network. You just have to embrace what your network is going to allow.

The worst thing you can do is end up with a network show on cable or end up with a cable show on network.

I've always read a lot of historical books and I'm a big fan of documentaries, and I've always thought of ways to do it.

I think the bar is higher these days in terms of audience expectations of authenticity.

I've spent a lot of time thinking about what the audience would want. That's my job, is to anticipate ahead of the audience.

I would say on a creative level I put a lot of pressure on myself.

Publishing is a business and writing is an art. The two have to be crammed together despite the clearly different motivations behind them.

Brace yourself, Savannah Daly. I’m taking you home to meet the family.

I want to be special to someone again. To know I’m cared for, and not out of obligation.

Dragons don't bother with introductions.

In life, redemption was walking up the down escalator: stop to congratulate yourself, and back you slid.

I'm extremely confident that solar will be at least a plurality of power, and most likely a majority... in less than 20 years.

For me, if I get up and don't meditate and don't eat something before having caffeine, I go from 0 to 10 on the stress scale.

Time was a thief, he stole your life away from you and the only way you could get it back was to outwit him and snatch it right back.

If you're feeling insecure and you need to feel special, the best place to go is somewhere foreign where people treat you as special because you're different.

Abortion is a woman's right.