I know a lot of shows are like, 'Here's the pages,' right before they start filming. I'd have a heart attack. The anxiety would be way too much for me. I don't have as strong a backbone as those other show writers.

I am so spoiled. I cannot watch a show where it gets interrupted for ads. I have to TiVo it and skip through the ads, because the culture of advertising is so false and phony that I just... ugh, you know?

I'm 53. I don't care about high school students. I find them irritating and uninformed.

I am a little suspicious of industry paradigms. I feel like so many movies and TV shows feel so familiar because of over-reliance on these paradigms.

There is a fetishization of victimization in our culture. And I just am not interested in victimhood.

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

The fact that we die, that makes life important. It's hard to take, but it's the truth.