I love working on a typewriter - the rhythm, the sound; it's like playing the piano, which I do, too.

You got an all-out prize fight, you wait 'til the fight's over, one guy's left standing and that's how you know who's won.

Storytelling is like sex. We all do it naturally. Some of us are better at it than others.

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.

Put. That coffee. Down. Coffee's for closers only.

Obama is a tyrant the same way FDR was a tyrant. He has a view of presidential power that states: the government is in control of the country, and the president is in charge of the government. He's taken an imperial view of the presidency.

The dream and the film are the juxtaposition of images in order to answer a question.