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I've loved all my books, but I will admit that 'The Man from Stone Creek' holds a very special place in my heart.

'Greatest American Hero,' I really dug that as a kid because it had an alienation to it, where he was given a gift and didn't know why, and yet he was forced to do something with it, and he was very much an out-of-place character who was trying to cope with his own surroundings, and I can kind of relate to that guy.

I would say my theme has always been paradise lost, always the lost cause, the lost leader, the lost utopia.

I think in this movie, every time I see his work, I'm blown away by it because he, to me, he really embodied the character so powerfully and so real, so truthfully to me.

All the sudden, I was part of the 'No Man's Land' thing, and there was a bundle of core writers for that, but somewhere along the line, I became the go-to guy after that initial arc.

I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all.

I have my own favorites; right now it's 'Simple Man,' but that changes from time to time.

Bruce Lee has always been a hero of mine, and the choreography in 'Enter The Dragon' is amazing.

For me, life and death are very important themes. There is no life without death. That's why it's very important to me.

I'm a sucker for the big, gruff, distant, emotionally closed-off hero who sloooowly warms up to the feisty, awesome, sweet heroine.