Yeah, most guys don't like to think about going to a bar with a girlfriend and watching her leave with someone else.

I write out of enthusiasm. Momentum that comes from a new idea. Eagerness to explore. I also write out of fear - fear of losing an idea - fear of feeling stagnant.

I feel like having an actual taxidermy-ed mammal would get gross, like its hair would get dirty and stuff.

I was tired of working in an office and I wanted to make a living telling stories. There are not many people who find a way to do this.

Sometimes I try to meditate, which I hope will help, but it doesn't really. But lots of times my dreams have the seed of an intriguing story.

Horror is so basic. You'd get an adrenaline jolt from watching your mom get gored by a woolly mammoth. A horror movie gives you the adrenaline without having to have your mom get gored.

I love horror movies. I consider myself a horror author, sometimes.

Fiction and screenwriting blend for me. I feel like being a TV writer/screenwriter has definitely made my fiction writing better, although I have less time to do it.

The Shield made me realize there were great opportunities for writers in TV.

We're lucky to be in the middle of a TV renaissance. It's the healthiest storytelling medium in our culture.

I own some bugs encased in lucite or something. I also have a big cat's eye - a fake one - made for a taxidermist. I really like animals.

The way into the hall of success always passes through the chamber of decision. Decide to be a success

Every living soul must endure to strive.

The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.

The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.

I leave you my portrait so that you will have my presence all the days and nights that I am away from you.

It is not the hours of practice that matter...it's what you put into the hours that counts.

Writing is 1 percent inspiration, and 99 percent elimination.

Macauley Culkin was on the show a lot. Or Haley Joe Osment.

I was in love with my wife and she was in love with me. We got along wonderfully.

In all my years as a news commentator I was never once, able to tell the truth, about anything.