The liberals in my neighbourhood wouldn't give away Brentwood to the Palestinians, but they want to give away Tel Aviv.

The conscious mind is going to suggest the obvious, the cliché, because these things have offered the security of having succeeded in the past.

Always tell the truth - it's the easiest thing to remember.

They say the definition of ambivalence is watching your mother-in-law drive over a cliff in your new Cadillac.

All fears are one fear. Just the fear of death. And we accept it, then we are at peace.

Every reiteration of the idea that nothing matters debases the human spirit.

The true writer must write not the acceptable but the true.

President Obama seems to understand the Constitution as a 'set of suggestions.'

No one enjoys being equal.

Everybody makes their own fun. If you don't make it yourself, it isn't fun. It's entertainment.

My greatest fear is that the audience will beat me to the punch line.

All rhetorical questions are accusations.

As long as the protagonist wants something, the audience will want something.

I've always been fascinated by the picaresque.

I've always been more comfortable sinking while clutching a good theory than swimming with an ugly fact.

Roll back the clock, and every possession of every great country started with a crime.

People only speak to get something.

To find beauty in the sad, hope in the midst of loss, and dignity in failure is great poetic art.

The greater the intellect, the more ease in its misdirection.