TV has a longer narrative, and TV's more like short stories. So there's less rules with TV; you can make it a little bit different. [With] movies, the medium has more constraints, so it was just about what stories are the most cinematic and the best resolution.

Most of my success, I feel, comes from being a good editor as opposed to a great writer.

Tell beautiful women they are smart, and smart women they are beautiful.

Men will treat you the way you let them. There is no such thing as 'deserving' respect; you get what you demand from people.

I started writing because it was about making my friends laugh, and when you're talking to your friends, you can't bullshit.

The rules your parents teach you to live by are very different than the rules the world actually runs by. Most of the conventional wisdom is not only wrong, it's a lie told to us by people who want to control us. It doesn't help us, it helps them. Pretty much everything we're told as children (and adults, really) by the established power structures in our lives are made up fairytales us to reinforce that control: Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, the tooth fairy, fat-free frozen dinners, religion, and metering lights on the highway--the list goes on

Listen to authority figures because of their position, but only believe them if they can explain why.