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

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 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.

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.

Of course, I tried to surround myself with other people like me whose dream of writing was a constant burden....

The thing about having a baby is that thereafter you have it.

Ooh, I'd love to be in a movie with Meryl Streep or Martin Scorsese. There are so many different things I want to do, maybe like a possessed child or an evil something... I don't know!

I can't sit in the same place. I gotta keep going.

Seriously, I think what all the puzzling over parenthood I had to do to write [a novel] ROOM taught me is that children can thrive in a remarkable range of situations.

There is a connection, hard to explain logically but easy to feel, between achievement in public life and progress in the arts.

Teenagers are like cats - they have important business that doesn't involve mere humans.

Bernie Sanders says that the biggest banks that dominate the economy should be broken up into smaller banks. This would be far more radical than Hillary Clinton's proposals to regulate Wall Street.

When I dj at big venues I try to play tracks that I would want to hear if I were e'd up in a field with 50,000 other people.

Writing about dead white males seems to be out of favor among academics.