One of the biggest challenges in the past for me in working on the networks was that audiences have grown accustomed to television being something that keeps you company-background music, something that you have on while you're flipping through a magazine, cooking dinner, talking on the phone, putting the kids to bed.

It wouldn't kill you to watch a film or pick up a newspaper once in a while.

If you close your eyes you can imagine the hackers sitting in a room, combing through the documents to find the ones that will draw the most blood. And in a room next door are American journalists doing the same thing. As demented and criminal as it is, at least the hackers are doing it for a cause. The press is doing it for a nickel.

Socializing on the internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality.

Only criminals and adulterers should have to hide who they are.

I would love for people to think that I am as quick, clever, smart and heroic as the characters that I write, but those characters are characters.

A hero would die for his country, but he'd much rather live for it.