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

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

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

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.

I think the idea that television has evolved to this place of real thematic richness and the fact that you no longer have to get 10 million people to watch your show in order to propagate its survival are the best things that have ever happened to storytelling in this medium.

The fundamental law of nature is to not know too much about yourself.

Just put your best foot forward and hope for the best. You also have to acknowledge that you're going to make mistakes.