Time away from thinking about something is as valuable - perhaps even more so - than directly thinking about it.

I think when you do a season of television you go into it going I'd like the season premiere needs to be amazing. The season finale needs to be amazing.

Probably the biggest challenge is actors, no matter how talented the actor is they don't have the capability of being in more than one place than one particular time, which is very vexing.

I love doing meta-humor, as long as it doesn't become too distracting and it's subtle.

Your subconscious is always working in the background, unlocking things and solving problems.

The guy who sits at the keyboard and types is so much smarter than I am. I think I got into writing so that I could spend as much time with that guy as possible.

Do what you love and you'll always love what you do. I've found that that's true most of the time.

The world's an angry place these days. Let's just not take it out on each other.

At some point if you're a professional writer, no matter what, it always comes down to you staring at the blank page by yourself.

There should be nothing I can't live without.

At the end of the day, I think the only way to do the kind of job a writer does is push everything aside and just ultimately sit down and do the work.

We have to seek knowledge, and infuse ourselves with so much light that can only come from knowledge.

don't let someone rearrange your path because they lost sight of their own.

Be who you are. You may not always please but you will never go wrong.

Jon Stewart hires people that he thinks are funny. That's it. That's the only requirement.

Planning a career, I always find that such a tricky thing, because I don't have much of a plan, really.

Writing a book I have found to be like building a house. A man forms a plan, and collects materials.

He who believes in the words of a dictator is the king of the fools!

I await joyous surprises while working, an awakening of the materials that I work with and that my spirit develops.

The Bible alone is the only authority that can bind the conscience of a person absolutely because it is the only authority that carries with it the intrinsic authority of God Himself.

It is not enough to invent new machines, new regulations, or new institutions. We must understand differently and more perfectly the true purpose of our existence on this earth.