Anyone ever lost in the wild knows that nature wants you dead.

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.

Welcome to Chicago. This town stinks like a whorehouse at low tide.

Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance.

It's hard to write a good play because it's hard to structure a plot. If you can think of it off the top of your head, so can the audience.

It is not the constitutional prerogative of the Government to determine needs.

We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.

Encounter: Doubt, Shame, Humiliation. It will finally be worth it. Acting is more about courage than anything else.

A good film script should be able to do completely without dialogue.

The job of the artist, is to say, wait a second, everything that we have thought is wrong. Let's re-examine it.

The audience requires not information but drama.

There's no such thing as talent; you just have to work hard enough.

The first amendment ensures not that speech will be fair, but that it will be free. It cannot be both.

Every fear hides a wish.

It's only words... unless they're true.

Being a writer in Hollywood is like going to Hitler's Eagle Nest with a great idea for a bar mitzvah.