I was one of the first generations to watch television. TV exposes people to news, to information, to knowledge, to entertainment. How is it bad?

People live longer today than they ever have. They live happier lives, have more knowledge, more information. All this is the result of communications technology. How is any of that bad?

Fundamentally, I think of myself as a storyteller, not a writer.

Surviving is much more painful than death.

Probably what pushed the Russians over the edge was SDI... They realized they couldn't beat us...

(Stereotyping) is only for those without the imagination to see people as they are instead of being like someone else they understand.

That's the ultimate pornography. There's nothing more pornographic than glorifying war.