To me the central premise is about friendships within people of different generations when you take out the idea how age creates a barrier - to me, that's what the show is about at it's core.

When the women start to push 40, they're not single, fun girls around town any more.

Sometimes you're lying to protect people in a way.

Most TV shows are about strong characters and strong actors, and we certainly have those.

The question of the stranger in a society which estranges everybody from it--while forcing everybody to assimilate their own alienation--takes cover under dubious and sinister masks.

The effect of change in surroundings is like that of lapse of time in making the past seem remote.

At high school, instead of the weekly essay, I would write a poem, and the teacher accepted that. The impulse was one of laziness, I'm certain. Poems were shorter than essays.

Our Heavenly Father is pleased when we don't compromise our faith and principles in times of desperation.

Idleness is the enemy of the soul.

I don't know why his lawyers didn't tell him, 'You don't have to answer any questions about your private life, Mr. President. Let them sue you. Take the heat. You don't have to answer.'

Whether you are inspired or not, the only way to unlock your creativity, is to start writing.

The leaves let go, the seeds let go, and I must let go sometimes, too, and cast my lot with another of nature’s imperfect but tenacious survivors.

The problem that religious moderation poses for all of us is that it does not permit anything very critical to be said about religious literalism.

I don't want to do an edgy show, I didn't want bad language. I think edginess is the new hackiness.