HBO is really famous for hiring good people and staying out of their way until they ask for help, or need it. And that reputation is earned.

Odd that the future should be so difficult to bring into focus when the past, uninvited, offered itself up so easily for inspection.

People often ask me how I make things funny. I don't make things funny.

A lot of my characters in all of my books have a self-destructive urge. They'll do precisely the thing that they know is wrong, take a perverse delight in doing the wrong thing.

To expect reason is where the fallacy lies.

Movies have to handle time very efficiently. They're about stringing scenes together in the present. Novels aren't necessarily about that.

Knowing and knowing what to do about it were two different things.