I found out that I'm a pretty bad father. I make a lot of mistakes and I don't know what I'm doing. But my kids love me. Go figure.

When you're a father in a marriage, you sort of become the mother's assistant, and you sort of get a list from her every day, and you do, you know, you run down the list, and it feels very much like a chore. And a lot of fathers live in kind of an avoidance. They sit on the toilet for several hours a day... Oh, honey, it took me 40 minutes to go to the post office... But once you become a dad without the mom there, you have to take it all on, and you sort of activate male skills that you didn't know you could apply to fatherhood.

I think one reason TV has always done well is because there is something comforting where you kind of know what you're going to be taken through.

There's two kinds of press that you get when you put out a TV show: The reviews, and the people that just decide what the reviews say.

Some people think it's demeaning to victims if you ever say anything out-loud about sexual abuse of children. I don't know if that's true.

Here's how my brain works: It's stupidity, followed by self-hatred, and then further analysis.

God is like a shitty girlfriend.