I think when you do a season of television you go into it going I'd like the season premiere needs to be amazing. The season finale needs to be amazing.

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.

Time has a certain current to it, and it wants to flow in a certain direction.

Your subconscious is always working in the background, unlocking things and solving problems.

The guy who sits at the keyboard and types is so much smarter than I am. I think I got into writing so that I could spend as much time with that guy as possible.

When I first started writing, I had a very difficult time switching between projects, but now it's not only second-nature, it's indispensable: If I stall on one project, I can switch to another and stay productive.

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