At some point if you're a professional writer, no matter what, it always comes down to you staring at the blank page by yourself.

Time away from thinking about something is as valuable - perhaps even more so - than directly thinking about it.

The world's an angry place these days. Let's just not take it out on each other.

In part, it's so difficult to come up with something original, to come up with a character nowadays. If you created a globetrotting adventurer, he'd be compared to Indiana Jones. If you created a super spy, he'd be compared to James Bond.

I love doing meta-humor, as long as it doesn't become too distracting and it's subtle.

I'm always working on something. I wish I had more time for free-thinking and brainstorming new ideas. That's not to say my mind doesn't wander, but I find myself wishing for more of that kind of time.

I think when it comes to television as opposed to film, the producers really are the writers. We work with people who are purely financial producers.