I used to think I'd like to be a fireman - in fact, I still would - and the only drawback I could see was coming back to the firehouse, after a day of fighting fires, and still having to put in an eight-hour day writing.

Art and mass entertainment and propaganda, they can all be plotted on the same graph, but there is a difference.

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

You know, young actors say all the time, 'Should I use my own life experience?' And my response is, 'What choice do you have?'

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.

The quality I most admire in a man is steadfastness.

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