As a fiscal conservative, I think that our government should pay for itself.
You can have data without information, but you cannot have information without data.
Writers, all the good ones, are Natural Born Liars.
Actors are good liars; writers are good liars with good memories.
An attempt to write nothing but characterization will soon bog down; I for one don't want to have somebody tell me about someone else.
Never test for an error condition you don't know how to handle.