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

At some point, you can't take a risk just to take a risk because that's a betrayal, in and of itself.

People are disappointed when the world doesn't end on their watch.

Hindsight is 20/20, but the moral of the writing for me is that when you're feeling very scared and nervous about something and you're fairly convinced that it could be a massive disaster, that's exactly the idea that you should do.

My gravestone will say,'Here Lies Damon Lindelof - Or Does He?

I've always been really interested in the future, and I feel like all of the movies that I've been exposed to, over the course of the last 20 to 30 years, have shown me a future that I don't really want to be living in.

If you're constantly hamstrung by worry that people aren't going to like it, you can't do your job.