Lost is a mystery show, so I think that would be stripping the franchise of sort of its essential nature.

One person's magical thinking is another person's cynicism.

There is no suspense in inevitability.

Reputation is a very interesting thing, and I always give people the benefit of the doubt, and I think that there's a part of all of us, especially in a generation where a lot of the stuff gets recorded.

Anger is not a real feeling. Every time in my life I've ever been angry, it's because I was scared, or because I was sad and I didn't know it. Anger doesn't just come out of a vacuum.

For us, there's an inherent process when you're ending something to be thinking about the beginning, as writers.

Finding meaning in the relationships that we have with one another - that's the only way to achieve any kind of fundamental true grace and that points to where it all ends up. It's let's stop being away some place, let's be here. It's, let's be in this.