The quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language.

If a person with a bullet in Dallas can change the world, imagine a person with an idea could do.

A lot of television tends to assume that audiences don't have the attention span or the IQ to follow a lot of stuff.

I like writing. It's partly control freak, and partly I really like what I do for a living. I have the luckiest job in the world. I can get up every day and do what I love for a living.

I'm sorry, but anyone who thinks the use of an angelic (or seemingly angelic character), whose likes have been written about for, oh, about 4,000 years, is ripping off Star Trek, has his head so thoroughly up his ass as to have blipped into an entirely new intestinally-based reality and desperately needs to get a wider frame of reference.

I've changed my mind. I've decided that at the end I want to be cremated and my ashes scattered over someone I don't like.

Again, one of the problems I have with television, as I mentioned before, is it's trivial in many ways, and I think that a lot of folks out there are looking for new metaphors and new ways of thinking about things.