I wasn't really aware they were a religious organization for quite some time. But my grandparents were very devout and ran a Quaker meetinghouse and were missionaries at one point.

In the U.K. I'm probably better known as a comedy writer - or certainly that's my background is in writing comedy.

I am neurotic, and I'm a worrier.

On the other hand [making a string of one-off episodes], there's a real freedom, because you're kind of reinventing the show every week.

One of the benefits of aligning yourself with an indistinct cluster of people is that claiming to feel their pain is often enough.

I saw The Twilight Zone for the first time when I was 12 or 13. I used to stay up late to watch.

Things like social media and the Internet, of course, it's not going away. There is no cure for it. And this shouldn't be just like there shouldn't be, you know - it would have been a tragedy if there was a cure for the printing press. I think it's just that it's an amazing tool that we as a - as an animal are just getting to grips with because it's like we've grown a new ultra powerful limb and we're learning how to use it.