I'm not kidding you when I tell you we don't know what's going to happen next episode. I really mean it.

You've got to be kidding me, ... How am I indecent in Miami, but I'm not indecent in (Fort Myers)?

If you have a hit, the best thing that can happen to you is having a bigger hit open next door.

They're coming in on chapter 48 of a 200-chapter Russian novel. I mean, things happen in year one, episode three that do not play out until year two, episode three, and you just have to be there for the whole time.

I mean, we know in general we'll avert a terrorist threat or conclude the conventional story, but we begin the year sort of pretending we have the first four to six (episodes). But even as we're writing those, they change. And I think one of the reasons the show has the quality it does . . . is we're so critical and so we revise ourselves. We revise it again. And in that process things just change too quickly to plan ahead too much.

So when I say it I mean it, and it is not a hypothesis. I have experienced It that way. The mind can be used and can be put aside. It is an instrument, a very beautiful instrument; no need to be so obsessed with it. No need to be so fixed, fixated with it. Then it becomes a disease.