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We Lead The World In Only 3 Categories: Number Of Incarcerated Citizens Per Capita, Number Of Adults Who Believe Angels Are Real, And Defense Spending, Where We Spend More Than The Next 26 Countries Combined, 25 Of Whom Are Allies. Now None Of This Is The Fault Of 20 Year Old College Student, But You Nonetheless Are Without A Doubt A Member Of The Worst Period Generation Period Ever Period, So When You Ask What Makes Us The Greatest Country In The World I Don't Know What The F...k You're Talking About.

Honestly, I Don't Try To Guess At What Most People Want. I Don't Think I'd Guess Right, And I Just Think That That's Not A Good Recipe For Storytelling. I Try To Write What I Like, What I Think My Friends Would Like.

I Wrote The Show West Wing For The Two Years Before And The Two Years After 9/11. Suddenly Everyone In The World Had Been Through Something That Our Characters Had Not Been Through; The Whole Trajectory Of The World Had Changed. Yet Our Show Took Place In A Parallel Universe. I Wasn't Really Sure What To Do About This. In No One's Wildest Dreams Did It Occur That An Event Like This Could Possibly Happen.

This Is A Time For Serious People, Bob, And Your Fifteen Minutes Are Up.

I Love Writing. I'm Not Particularly Comfortable In The Actual World - I'm Much More Comfortable On The Page. So If I Could Have A Life Where I Could Just Slip The Pages Under The Door And Somebody Would Slip Me A Meal Back, Then That Would Be Perfect For Me.