You learn more when things go wrong.

When the stories come easily and the writing process doesn't feel laboring, that's usually a good sign for me.

But I do believe that in all my shows, I really enjoy the quirky, the eccentric characters, the ones you don't meet every day.

It gets harder and harder to succeed and find audiences with the 500-channel universe, the remote control, and people being so trigger happy with that remote control. It just gets harder to get a foothold.

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.

Chemistry is not anything an executive producer or writer can orchestrate or plan; you just hope for it.