I read Stephen King as a junior high schooler. My father introduced me to Stephen King far too young, which I'm very grateful for now.

I just felt my good fortune, and I also trust my love for the book, my love for the material, and my reverence for Stephen King.

Josh Duhamel is somebody you can't take your eyes off of, and same with T.R. Knight. It's a car that you want to run up to 100 mph, right away.

All of us are beautiful people, but we walk around just being people. I wanted real human beings.

People want to evolve the idea of the word "mini-series." Mini-series has an '80s connotation to it.

Conservatism is not about tradition and morality, hasn't been for many decades... It is about the putative biological and spiritual superiority of the wealthy.

I remember reading once that some fellows use language to conceal thought

Common Core is a big win for education.

The way you make money is to do something you don't like to do. And that's how you know you're a virtuous person.

[On Dashiell Hammett:] ... he is so hard-boiled you could roll him on the White House lawn.

I can't imagine having the courage to ask a publisher to do a whole book of my poems.

In every party there is one person who, through his dotingly credulous enunciation of party principles, incites the other members to defection.

However, there's nothing more inspiring than a company that does solve problems and those problems are captured as part of a larger story.

My moods are continuously shifting like the weather.

Well, I'm not a crook.