It is horrible to sit in front of the keyboard and write those scenes because you're losing too. You lose somebody you enjoy working with.

A non-frightening zombie is a lame zombie.

Character deaths in and of itself should never be done for shock.

You can do irrefutably impossible things with the right amount of planning and support from intelligent and hardworking people and pizza.

When people make a horror movie, it's a few months. This is years of horror, that these guys have to play out. It just hit me and I was like, "Wow, that's heavy."

It's not like there are a lot of horror shows on television. There are a few.

I have a great set of executive producers helping me out. I have a great cast and crew. AMC has been fantastic. I'd say it's everything I was doing before, just eighteen other jobs. I love it.

You will do well not to write for money, not because you won't get rich doing it, but because writing fueled by that sort of motivation becomes dull and lifeless and mediocre.

Sometimes when people are under stress, they hate to think, and it's the time when they most need to think.

After me there are no more jazz singers . . . It's a crime that no little singer is back there sockin' it to me in my field. To keep it going, to keep it alive, because I'm not going to live forever.

In that dilated moment after sunset when the sky holds all the light.

Some of you in this room support higher taxes. I welcome your enthusiasm and am glad to report that the IRS takes both money orders and checks.

Writing well means never having to say, 'I guess you had to be there.'

Non-co-operation in an angry atmosphere is an impossibility.

Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcende nce.

I have ever deemed it fundamental for the United States never to take active part in the quarrels of Europe.... They are nations of eternal war.

Writing is physical work. It's sweaty work. You just can't will yourself to become a good writer. You really have to work at it.