I am a leaf on the wind. Watch how I soar!

Bottom line is, even if you see 'em coming, you're not ready for the big moments. No one asks for their life to change, not really. But it does. So what are we, helpless? Puppets? No. The big moments are gonna come. You can't help that. It's what you do afterwards that counts. That's when you find out who you are.

Beautiful revelations of power are often written by the guy who got kicked around and didn’t have any power.

I keep thinking they’re gonna call me. I keep thinking they’re gonna crunch the numbers and think, oh, we can make money with this! And they don’t.

Don't just be yourself. Be all of your selves.

I think it's not inaccurate to say that I had a perfectly happy childhood during which I was very unhappy.

I tried to write a TV series, and then I discovered first of all that I love writing more than anything on this earth, and that you could write exactly as well as you want to.