Opportunity may knock, but it seldom nags.

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.

The terror and beauty of the dream come from the connection of previously unrelated mundanities of life.

The realization that I came to is that each citizen for himself or herself understands the economics, which is, "I better make more than I spend and I better put something aside for a rainy day, and I want to get a good idea about what to do with the surplus so that perhaps it can grow while I'm sleeping." And that that's capitalism. Everybody practices it, but half of the country - those on the left - deny that it's true.

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

If you find that a point cannot be made without narration, it is virtually certain that the point is unimportant to the story (which is to say, to the audience).

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