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

Half-way through any big project, everyone forgets what they're doing.

Writers write for one reason: to create an emotion in the reader, to reach across and make them feel something. You want a reaction. Yeah, it's nicer when the reaction is to throw flowers than it is to throw brickbats, but you have to accept both equally.

On a certain level, I don't think there is an answer to what the American way is, because it is constantly being re-defined. It's also been exploited and capitalized upon and politicized by one side or the other to the point that a certain degree of cynicism has attached itself to that term.

If a person with a bullet in Dallas can change the world, imagine a person with an idea could do.

The hardest thing in the world is to stand alone. Your friends will not understand, will resent you, will want you to just stop it and let life go back to where it was. But you have to follow the quiet turning of your own considered conscience. It's a hard road.

I am a huge zombie fan. I have probably seen the George Romero movies 100 times each, without exaggeration.