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

We are definitely living in the butterfly effect theory, where any change that is made in the past is going to have a very logical cause-and-effect ramification of the present.

It's hard asking someone with a broken heart to fall in love again.

Every so often you want to map out your plot mythology but never so specifically that you can’t let a story surprise you. You want to allow the type of action of the writer’s room so that you have the ability to take a left turn.

In TV and movies, you kill yourself spending all this time to think up the symbolism or what if that deer that runs across your hero's path somehow conveys what's going on inside your hero's head? When a lot of times, you just want to hear what he's thinking.

People love a good mystery; I understand that.

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