It's a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself. Makes you wonder what else you can do that you've forgotten about.

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.

A lot of times, the choice of the right song will save a scene. Or there will be a scene that's a little flat and you put in the right song and somehow it just comes alive.

Most of us live in artificial environments and then we go to work in artificial environments and the world becomes something that you see through a window.

I'm from the South, so while I personally find it impossible to live there, I still have a fondness for it as a geographical region.

Happy relationships are boring. We all want them in our own life. But I don't want to watch them on TV.

Never underestimate the power of denial.