Open Letter to Cormac McCarthy

First off, I would like to commend you on your work with the book, "The Road." Did you ever think that it would become a major motion picture. I'm sure you didn't even think that that would be a possibility. You wer probably more focused on the acutal book, which is why I think the book turned out as great as it did. The story line is very exciting as well as the connection between the characters throughout the story. I would like to know what your inspiration was for such a book. I imagine there would have to be some dark thoughts to be able to think of some of the rather morbid occurences in this story. Hopefully, you don't think that this is a real possibility for our world. Also, I would like to know if you had any help with formulating your ideas, and if so who were they. Do any of these characters represent anyone in your daily life? I have so many other questions, but I fear that posing them all here would cause my computer to spontaneously combust, so I'll leave it at those.