I miss Denny Crane.

But I do believe that in all my shows, I really enjoy the quirky, the eccentric characters, the ones you don’t meet every day.

In retrospect, I think it’s a plus, because now we’ve been able to go back and spend extra time on each of those episodes and make them better.

When the stories come easily and the writing process doesn’t feel laboring, that’s usually a good sign for me.

I’ve never really told jokes. I’m not good at it.

I don’t think I could write a straight drama.

When I really have to push and grope and scratch and claw to make a story work, that’s a telltale sign that maybe something conceptually isn’t right.

People are out of their home on a Saturday night or they’re at the movies or they’re at dinner and a lot of the people who flip on the television are doing just that. They may have never seen your show before and you can’t count on to your audience to be there week in and week out.

For me, I’m happy to succeed on any network.

I don’t think it’s that strange that a show has sort of a bumpy beginning. It’s just part and parcel of the process.