You know, it's hard as a writer to lose characters (and actors) you like. You really don't want them to die because you're not going to get to see them anymore.

To create a situation where each new episode has to start in the exact same place as the previous one, with the actors' hair in the exact same place, seemed crazy.

What you have to get used to as a writer is realizing that most of what you come up with is wrong for the show.

I think ultimately what makes the show is not the reality but the drama.

To be fair to ourselves, in almost every original script, the timing is actually worked out down to the minute.

My background is in math and science, and I thrive on complexity, and I think lots of people do. People love puzzles; it's human nature to want to solve puzzles.

The rule, I think, is: Do your homework, learn what there is to learn about the real world, and then when you get in the room, forget it all.

If you try to do a task at your odd hours, you will waste so much time only to find out that you did a poor job after all.

You are never alone as long as you are in the company of your precious self.

Nothing can separate two hearts that have found each other

Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.

...I don't have to worry about not meeting His expectations. God will ensure my success in accordance with His plan, not mine.

I have always been concerned with painting that simultaneously insists on a flat surface and then denies it.

Politicians think that if matters look difficult, compromise is a good approach. Unfortunately, nature and the laws of physics cannot compromise - they are what they are.

When Chuck Norris stands in front of a mirror it shatters because the mirror knows never to stand between CHUCK NORRIS and CHUCK NORRIS.

The lust for affluence in contemporary society has become psychotic; it has completely lost touch with reality.

I'm always perversely attracted to characters that seem one thing, but are ultimately revealed as another...