Doing good stuff or stuff that you are proud of takes time and takes effort.

We're not allowed to carry out harsh interrogations anymore, but we're allowed to fly over somebody's village, without due process, and kill them all?

In a novel, the only budgetary limitations are that of your imagination.

TV and film are very different media with different requirements. In a TV show, you have actors and fellow writers and directors, who are interpreting your work. With a novel, you only have ink, words and your reader.

Listening takes practice, and it takes patience. But I promise, if you listen, your story will be better for it.

I guess I've always been an aspiring novelist. I went to Princeton and wrote a novel for my thesis.

I feel like a centrist, an issue-specific person. I'm pretty conservative fiscally and pretty liberal on social issues.