I'm fortunate to have had my own level of success. My joys in life are I've got three little kids, and I got to buy a house that I really like, and everyone should have that.

I really gravitate to the comedy of tonal contrasts. I hope that doesn't sound insufferably pretentious. What I mean is people having reactions to things that seem inappropriate, or being happy in an apparently unhappy situation.

I have always been drawn to characters, and this was true for my feature-writing career as well, where there is a tension between rule-breaking and rule-following.

The idea of the writer/producer in television is much younger than people think it is.

Everybody should have a television show. Let's all get television shows!

One of the things that I have always been interested in is the actual experience of people in their lives as opposed to what we think their experience should be.

I came to accept in myself a long time ago that I really do like writing articulate sociopaths.