I've always said at the beginning of every single season of the show when I was running the show in the writers' room, "This is the last season, so let's smoke 'em if we've got 'em."

Beyond all our Blackberries and iPhones, we're dangerously separated from our food and water supplies.

When you start a show, the plans are not set in stone. They're really mutable, cocktail napkin sketches.

It's always better to go personal and painful than to go big.

When I am kicking around show ideas, or really any idea, usually an image comes to me. I don't really start with a character or a logline like, "What if the electricity turned off?"

People pitch me the crazy mystery mind-blowing thing all the time. My response is, 'Great, but how do the characters feel about it, and how do we reveal new facets and new dimensions of who they are?'

Kids aint supposed to be grateful! They're supposed to eat your food, break your heart.