I can't claim I'm truly a man's man, I'm just as much of a dork and a crybaby sometimes as anybody else.

I have a great-great-great-grandfather who was a Confederate cavalry colonel, and I still have his military composite photo on my wall. The chemicals in the photo tint have changed over the years to the point that he looks green. One of my family members apparently still has the piece of paper that listed every thing in his pocket when he got shot.

I grew up in the South, so a huge part of our American History education revolved around the Civil War.

I like science fiction. I took all the accelerated classes in school. I'm kind of a dork.

I feel there’s no need to overstate.

You don't need to like your protagonists.

In the last two or three decades, there's been a feminization of the man in popular media that I've never really understood.