Not everything is going to be successful. To strive for that is really naive. You just do the best you can do.

I'm a Buddhist, so one of my biggest beliefs is, 'Everything changes, don't take it personally.'

I'm not a believer in luck, but I do believe you need it.

We live in a time where there's an alienation factor. There's a certain disconnection. We don't have any real sense of community anymore.

My own belief is that people can come back from anything. It doesn't mean that it won't come at a huge cost.

I think the world is a place for oddballs and freaks. I'm only interested in oddballs and freaks as characters.

As a writer, it's fun to create. And once you get into a long-running show with very established characters and a very established tone and format, after a while it's a really great job, but that's what it is - a job.