Everyone I know who used to be in the intelligence community is moving into the corporate world.

The people in the Philippines are so extraordinarily nice.

But what I didn't recognize when I was much younger was this sort of...when you're on, when you're really on, go at it.

I think what I've recognized over the years is that I'm very, very bingey, extremely bingey when it comes to writing.

Fear changes everything. We're animals, and when we get afraid we act like animals. I'm not exempt from that.

I have written a bunch of scripts that have not gotten produced, much more so early in my career than later.

I don't remember writing anything until I wrote my college application.