You feel a little weird, as a writer of scripted television for many years, to say you're a fan of reality TV. You feel like a traitor. But I am a total fan.

A flower doesn't love you or hate you, it just exists.

I think living in our culture right now, there's a universal experience where we feel like we become what we do. Sometimes that's rewarding and sometimes that creates an existential crisis.

From my experience, meditating can bring up the most stressful thoughts.

My impulse is to create an aesthetic that's about a humanistic approach to a world and trying to create compassion for all the characters.

I don't even give my scripts to friends because I just feel it's, like, I don't need one more set of opinions.

I don't feel the breath of a thousand people over my shoulder.

You want to work with people who you like and have an easy rapport with.

There are life lessons that can be derived from reality television.

I think there are certain ways that people are always themselves, but I do think people change

As you get older, you realize just figuring out how to be nice to the people in your personal sphere is almost more challenging than trying to change the bigger culture.

Many women who have anorexia put their hearts in a compromised situation.

Some of His children must go into the furnace to testify that the Son of God is there with them.

If we are incapable of finding peace in ourselves, it is pointless to search elsewhere.

A Church which abandons the truth abandons itself.

Glitter is cool because that's like glam rock, but rhinestones need to die out.

I can't go back and label myself as an outcast because I was a pretty well-adjusted kid, but I can certainly relate to the feeling of being an outsider.

There are moments when tribulations occur in our lives, and we cannot avoid them. But they are there for some reason.

Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal.

The Seasons Difference is a suave and urbane comedy about several immense abstractions - faith, innocence, loneliness, and love.

Sometimes I think of that and I'm like, "Simone, I don't know what else you can do. What more can you do? Maybe you can repeat yourself." I'll take time off, get out more, go outside more, vacation.