Ironing is a great diversion from the reality you don't want to face.

There's just no real job security when you're shooting a show about an apocalypse, and anybody could die at any time.

If you meet your heroes, you're always going to be disappointed. Frederick Douglass was a great man, but would I want my daughter to marry him? Probably not. That doesn't mean that I don't think he's a great man.

I don't like spoilers. I don't like things being spoiled.

You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.

Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose.