One person may need (or want) more leisure, another more work; one more adventure, another more security, and so on. It is this diversity that makes a country, indeed a state, a city, a church, or a family, healthy. 'One-size-fits-all,' and that size determined by the State has a name, and that name is 'slavery.'

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

Luck, if there is such a thing, is either going to favor everyone equally or going to exhibit a preference for the prepared.

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.

Fun is what you do for yourself. If somebody else does it, it's entertainment.

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

Conservatives believe in smaller government and in the power of the electorate. So I think that we're less likely to try to use a dramatic forum to warp people's political views.