Some people, no matter where they look, they see themselves.

Whatever I watched, whatever I loved in 36 years of life on Earth, probably had some influence on me.

We live in a culture that has a real hard time distinguishing fiction from reality. Even when they're told something is fiction.

I'm not in the service business.

The Atlantic really gave me my writing career - even just the conviction to be a writer.

I've found that all weak people share a basic obsession - they fixate on the idea of satisfaction. Anywhere you go men and women are like crows drawn by shiny objects. For some folks, the shiny objects are other people, and you'd be better off developing a drug habit.

The idea of being a show runner was very attractive to me, to create and control something.