All [TV] shows are like cigarettes. You watch two, you have a higher chance of watching three. They're all addictive.

— Dan Harmon

As humans, reality for us is largely based on other people's perceptions. If there are 20 bodies in your crawl space, but you haven't been caught yet, you tell yourself you're still a birthday clown, and that's how you keep doing it.

— Dan Harmon

Don't be so hard on yourself, don't put pressure on yourself, life is just a chain of experiments and results, and you'll be perfect when you're dead.

— Dan Harmon

Garry Handling has always been a pioneer of… meta entertainment. He's always been a defender of the creative right to use the frame as part of the painting.

— Dan Harmon

Humankind made these religions; that our brains are capable of doing that is neither something to take too seriously — because we also make poop, and we learned to flush that the fuck down the toilet — but it's also not something to totally disregard.

— Dan Harmon

I expect the audience to assume TV is stupid. I accept that it's my job to overcome it.

— Dan Harmon

I'm always trying to gain and keep the audience's respect. I always want them to know that the show doesn't think they're stupid for watching.

— Dan Harmon

I think women are different, and I think having them in the room is crucial to a family comedy, ensemble comedy, television comedy, where half the eyeballs on your show are women.

— Dan Harmon

I've discovered a new video game called owning my home.

— Dan Harmon

I wish people used wishes to modify themselves instead of others. Wish to be low maintenance. Wish to be autonomous, even.

— Dan Harmon