You can save the city, but having the city be in jeopardy is one thing and having the people you care about be in jeopardy is another.

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.

Live life with great humility.

Such are the foolish dreams of idealistic children who believe that anything can possibly get better over time.

Im not a bad guy. People who know me know who I am.

Hopefully before I'm done, I can be on an Olympic team.

Whining is just unbecoming.

I like to watch good football so I like to watch good players. I like Cristiano Ronaldo, Andres Iniesta, Xavi and Wayne Rooney.

My punches are just as hard in Chicago as in New York.

The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.

Within that awful volume lies The mystery of mysteries!

Hockey is a unique sport in the sense that you need each and every guy helping each other and pulling in the same direction to be successful.