I like to find ideas where the research is going to be fun.

A show is going to be good and fun to work on, if the research is interesting.

I'm kind of a comic book geek, but I'm not really a super hero comic book geek.

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

When you're writing TV or movies your vernacular is time, it's all based on rhythms, a character takes a beat or two characters have a moment, like everything is about time. And when you're writing a comic, everything is about space. It's how many panels to put on a page, when should you do a full page splash, what is the detail that you see in any particular image.

You think you're funny? I think I'm adorable.

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."