If I feel that I'm not able to do my best work - whether that's my own fault or as a result of an editorial situation - then I need to stop doing it. I would rather not do something than do it badly or ineffectively. It's the only way I can live with myself and do right by the fans in the long haul.

I'm all for crossovers if they benefit the individual books.

I'm a big believer in the idea that while we are the sum of our tears, we are also the product of our choices in how we deal with those tears.

Wouldn't it be much worse if life really were fair and all the terrible things that happen to us happen because we really deserve them?

A lot of television tends to assume that audiences don't have the attention span or the IQ to follow a lot of stuff.

No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.

There's a rule of writing: if everything is funny, nothing is funny; if everything is sad, nothing is sad. You want that contrast.