Fans tend to get too excited by streaks of either kind and I think the press does too. There should be a happy medium.
I think there's an abundance of talent in America and there will never be not a lot of talent out there.
I'm not the kind of writer who's able to block out the world around me. I'm mindful of our own haves and have-nots, how our culture often blames and punishes the have-nots. I worry about our precarious economic and political climate.

