TV tends to be like, if you're lucky, it's like Las Vegas. You can't get out. There's always another pitch meeting. They keep you on the casino floor. If I'm unlucky, if I'm lucky enough to be unlucky, I would love to write a movie.

I wish that television would stop selling our hatred of ourselves, and start seducing us with our love of ourselves.

Class clowns are never allowed to date anybody decent, but you don't get beaten up, you're invited to parties, and everybody likes you.

'I want to touch people but if I touch them in real life they'll slap me.' That's what writing isit's a gross person getting a hug.

If your ratings are high and there’s money being made, you’re allowed to be a perfectionist in television.

It was never my direct intention to do anything particularly medium-defying.

Television is a populous, derivative, democratic medium.