Hollywood screenwriters tend to have the longevity of NFL running backs. So the truth is no one can put more pressure on us than we put on ourselves.

'Breaking Bad.' Because it's the best American narrative fiction of the last ten years.

Perhaps a hero is someone who doesn’t register his own vulnerability. Is it courage, then, if you’re too daft to know you’re mortal?

This is good, life must continue, we are fighting barbarians, but we must remain human.

Truth might be stranger than fiction, but it needs a better editor.

It is actually a lot harder to sit down and write from A to Z. But for me at least, it's the only way I can do it, at this point, with any moderate success.

With the movies, people are not going to wait around. The deadline is a deadline. In publishing it's more a polite suggestion.