I got a lot of texts from friends and emails from friends and most of them were just pure jealousy.

You can't just sit around in leopard-print slippers and drink champagne all day and think everything's gonna work out somehow.

Society is completely unreasonable. People want everything and want to pay for nothing. They panic if they think about their taxes being raised, but if their garbage collection is a day late they scream and yell.

I don't know why anybody does anything in the world of television.

The best shows are always the ones that are very, very low-concept and just about great characters.

It's all about media culture and people on television, and that feeling comfortable, friendly, or warm toward a candidate [in the elections] is a reason people would emotionally attach themselves to that candidate. I get the mechanics of it, I just hate that it's true.

In a world where your interactions with humans are solely about rating one to five, two things happen: One is all humanity is lost in the name of fake pleasantries and also there's no nuance to that system. There's no room for complex interactions that are rich and meaningful.