I'd rather make a show 100 people need to see, than a show that 1000 people want to see.

The networks have a particular agenda, a particular model and structure. It doesn't have anything to do with content. This is not a dis on them - they are a business model, run by business people.

There are some things I can just smell. It's like a sixth sense." "Well, actually, that would be one of the five.

I don't think I'm a celebrity. Maybe I'm a cult figure?

I write to be the characters that I am not.

Every time you work on a project, it's a little vacation from the project you're working on the other 23 hours. That's the thing - it replenishes you to do something else.

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the road less traveled by and they CANCELLED MY FRIKKIN' SHOW. I totally shoulda took the road that had all those people on it. Damn.