They say to just write about what's happening in your backyard because that's where you find the most creativity. It's in the DNA of the show. There's no question.

Violence has not really been an issue. Even in my wildest hopes, I wasn't trying to get violence in.

What you'll gain is the macro story. You'll get a good command of that. And what you might lose is some of the fun of it.

Regret is a tricky word. Here's a big secret: nobody knows what wasn't.

Writers need restrictions. If somebody just says, "Hey, do you want to write a novel, or an article, or a movie, or a short story, you get shut down."

One of the challenges of the show has always been trying to be surprising, and that was easy to do when nobody was watching it. Now that people have started watching it, they get ahead of us. We've all started really guarding the material, just to make it fun for the audience.

First of all, there is absolutely an order that we have put together to create the maximum number of surprises, but that's just part of our storytelling.