My court skills may have atrophied.

I never thought of myself as a writer.

In retrospect, I think it's a plus, because now we've been able to go back and spend extra time on each of those episodes and make them better.

I don't think it's that strange that a show has sort of a bumpy beginning. It's just part and parcel of the process.

You've got to honor your relationship with your audience - that they sit down because they want to be entertained. And that doesn't mean you can't provoke them and antagonize them and challenge them in the course of the entertainment as long as you keep the entertainment part of the equation alive.

You learn more when things go wrong.

I don't think I could write a straight drama.