Your subconscious is always working in the background, unlocking things and solving problems.

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.

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.

At the end of the day, I think the only way to do the kind of job a writer does is push everything aside and just ultimately sit down and do the work.

When you accomplish the impossible then you can achieve anything.

The Spirit is the reason we can build a church and have confidence that we will get it at least a little bit right.

After all, why things ended up in a way that you never imagine.

I don't think my wife likes me very much, when I had a heart attack she wrote for an ambulance.

I think essentially corrupting institutions in Washington are turning conservatism into something that is really very creepy, but also emotionally and psychically powerful for people.

Nobody ever died of being shot by a cookie.

If someone can relate my guitar solo to an exercise in a book... that's no fun at all.

Sometimes things in life happen that allow us to understand our priorities very clearly. Ultimately you can see those as gifts.

Go home and tell your daughters they are beautiful.

We're going to tear those boys apart.