Time has a certain current to it, and it wants to flow in a certain direction.

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.

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

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.

God is changing the guard indeed in the body of Christ worldwide. This I cannot be quiet about!

I really thought twice about the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame when that came in. I always was of a mind that it's an inherently stupid idea to put something like that in a glass case.

Mathematics is the science of patterns.

I think it's important that we don't all have to hold our heads high all the time saying everything's fine.

Nobody can afford to appear more pleasant than they really are!

There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.

I didn't really do too much television. I really went straight into film.

Mort was already aware that love made you feel hot and cold and cruel and weak, but he hadn't realized that it could make you stupid.

Our greatest enemies, the ones we must fight most often, are within.

I’d love to be faster. Physically I’m limited, but I’ve survived by using my head.