In traditional TV, it's very hard to have the luxury of banking all your scripts and getting everything in a row, but it does make it very easy, and it's very productive and beneficial and you learn as you're going.

Marriage is just an elaborate game that allows two selfish people to periodically feel that they're not.

Just because a baby cries, I discovered, doesn't mean there's always something wrong. Sometimes babies wake up for no real reason. They just want to check if they're doing it right. "This is Sleeping, right?" "Exactly." "I just lie here?" "That's right." "Okay." Then back to sleep they go.

Upstate New York in the middle of October. You can't get more beautiful than that.

Parents often give middle names just so that later, when they're yelling at the kid, they can drag it out. Henry David Thoreau, you come in here this instant!

You know what? The obvious is obvious for a reason.

If a tree falls on your head in a forest and no one hears it, it still hurts.