But nothing warps time quite like childhood

We're not trying to be deliberately frustrating, but we are laying the tracks for a mystery, and it's one that we have all figured out. We wanted this to be kind of like the way that Cliff [Chang] and I felt about the Cold War in the '80s when we were 12.

As you get older you start to see these events and leaders, and movements of the pendulum swinging back.

I've never gotten anything but support and thanks from people for having diverse books.

Not a word of my writing has ever been changed by another person's hands, and I don't think many screenwriters can say that.

It's just people who grew up in that time are suddenly old enough to be creators themselves, but I think they have a little perspective. I'm 40 now, and I have children of my own. Before I forget my own childhood completely, I want to take some time to take a look at the '80s and think back.

I think some people are just very passionate that things remain the way they were when they were kids.