You make decisions and choices, and you’re never going to know if they’re the ideal choices, but you make them and you make the most of them.

You have to be driven by the stories that you want to tell. You can’t simply be responding, or there won’t be any real heart to those stories anymore.

If your audience doesn’t like something, you should think to yourself, “Well, why don’t they like something? Is there something wrong here?” And, if they like something, you should think to yourself, “Why do they like it? What am I doing right here?,” and deal with those issues.

Things have their place. You wouldn’t hang dreidels from a Christmas tree.

Doing what you love means dealing with things you don’t.

The saying within the writer’s room, which were my words of wisdom, if you will, was, “The punishment doesn’t have to fit the crime, but there has to be a crime.”

You’re supposed to trust friends. You have no reason to be his friend? That is part of the pleasure of friendship: trusting without absolute evidence and then being rewarded for that trust.

You have to make changes before people are clamoring for changes. If people are asking for changes, it’s too late.

Only two things you ignore: things that aren’t important and things you wish weren’t important, and wishing never works.

It’s a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they’re dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they’re willing to die for. What they’re willing to lie for.