I've never counted my chickens before they've hatched.

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."

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

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

When you do 22 episodes of a network show, it's incredibly useful to have a format that gives you a jumping-off point for a story.

"I'm going to put out something that I believe in, or I'm not going to do it." I'm really scared of putting out a product that people will say, "Oh, that's not as good as the other thing."

At the end of day, people are starving and, if people are starving and thirsty and they need to keep their families alive, people become desperate quickly. There are real world examples of this.