We are definitely living in the butterfly effect theory, where any change that is made in the past is going to have a very logical cause-and-effect ramification of the present.

Kids aint supposed to be grateful! They're supposed to eat your food, break your heart.

It's hard asking someone with a broken heart to fall in love again.

I've had a lifelong obsession with urban legends and American folklore.

Television showrunners are a foolishly optimistic bunch.

Beyond all our Blackberries and iPhones, we're dangerously separated from our food and water supplies.

I've always said at the beginning of every single season of the show when I was running the show in the writers' room, "This is the last season, so let's smoke 'em if we've got 'em."

When I am kicking around show ideas, or really any idea, usually an image comes to me. I don't really start with a character or a logline like, "What if the electricity turned off?"

Your half-caff double vanilla latte is getting cold over here, Francis.

People simply don't make eye contact anymore.

I like to find ideas where the research is going to be fun.

Science can lift people out of poverty and cure disease. That, in turn, will reduce civil unrest.

I grasped two things: I wasn't as happy as I could be, and my life wasnt going to change unless I made it change.

Build the raft of meditation and self-discipline, to carry you across the river. There will be no ocean, and no rising tides to stop you; this is how comfortable your path shall be.

Among some people arrogance supplies the place of grandeur, inhumanity of decision, and roguery of intelligence.

Priests are no more necessary to religion than politicians are to patriotism.

A computer will do what you tell it to do, but that may be much different from what you had in mind.

A better idea than my own is to listen.

Hell is the wrath of God--His hate of sin.

Ocean waters..oceans deep..Serious poets never sleep.

I am still raw. I say I may be back. You know what lies are for. Even in your Zen heaven we shan't meet.