Toby Zeigler: There's literally no one in the world I don't hate right now.

Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.

It's certainly easy for me to make a fictional character mad about something. I can get them angry about something that I'm relatively indifferent about, just because I'm not educated on it, if I go to someone who is educated about it and is passionate about it. I find a point of fiction and then give it to them.

Certainly, last year we did an episode about the census and sampling versus a direct statistic. You just said the word 'census', and people fall asleep.

Tell me what you think and then tell me what the really smart person in the room who disagrees with you thinks.

I think it's up to writers to write stuff that is compelling enough that people want to watch.

I'm terribly afraid of failure. When your identity is wrapped up in writing and you've written something that doesn't work, it's a tough pill to swallow.