I think the general anxiety of the 1960s - '70s spawned our interest in the living dead. When people worry about the end of their world, they need a safe vessel for all their fears. Zombies provide that vessel because they're 'safe.'

I actually wrote my first zombie book way before I got the job on 'Saturday Night Live.'

I wanted to serve. It was Desert Storm. I thought, 'I was a rich kid, and America's been good to me.'

I remember I used to come up to my teacher crying because I couldn't read. She would say: 'You can do this. You just don't want to do this.'

Selfless suffering feels good for short crusades, but as a way of life, it’s unsustainable.

After all, why would a doctor worry about the confidentiality of her patient if she didn’t believe that patient was still alive?

And yes, I know I saw something. We both did. But knowing you saw something is different from knowing what you saw.

The human heart can only absorb so much pain.

When you think about the CIA, you probably imagine two of our most popular and enduring myths. The first is that our mission is to search the globe for any conceivable threat to the United States, and the second is that we have the power to perform the first.

People only see the present through the lenses of their personal pasts.