With showrunning, the more successful you get, the more you're pulled away from the writing.

It's a nightmare of editing. That's what I do all day.

By engaging someone for five minutes, you can make them a lifelong fan.

Part of walking the line as showrunner is trying to please people and still be true to what you believe creatively.

Fans can't ruin shows. Only creators can.

In a landscape where a 2.8 [demo rating] keeps you on the air, you can maintain that just by treating your fans with respect.

I am done with the hour-long [true crime] shows: "She was a happy married wife. Everything was perfect. Until the trip to Aruba."

When you're on a staff, it's not your job to write what you think is funny. It's your job to write what the person who created the show thinks is funny.

Until I created my own shows, I had nothing but bad experiences on staffs.

Any time you try to be edgy just for the sake of being edgy, that's the worst way.

The writing is what's most important to me.

Free yourself from the complexities of your life! A life of simplicity and happiness awaits you.

In search of that beat that my heart skipped when I first saw your beautiful soul...

they that reject and disregard the unripe fruits are they that enjoy the ripe fruits

I decided I got to say whether I was Christian or not, and so I've relaxed enormously since then. I'm the one who gets to say that, and not someone else.

For the first 10 years of my life in Congress, I had been too timid to tell the truth as I saw it. In a way I had betrayed my trust.

Fathers and sons are much more considerate of one another than mothers and daughters.

I was a neophyte in another world [in 1954].

The longest part of the journey is said to be the passing of the gate.

The Lord 'hath set His tabernacle in the sun,' says the Psalmist. The sun is Mary's heart.

The highest treason a crab can commit is to make a leap for the rim of the bucket.