Every reiteration of the idea that nothing matters debases the human spirit.

It's hard for a Jew of my generation, an American Jew, who is philo-Zionistic, not to romanticize Israel.

The individual is not only best qualified to provide his own personal defense, he is the only one qualified to do so: and his right to do so is guaranteed by the Constitution.

We recipients of the boon of liberty have always been ready, when faced with discomfort, to discard any and all first principles of liberty, and, further, to indict those who do not freely join with us in happily arrogating those principles.

Anyone can write five people trapped in a snowstorm. The question is how you get them into the snowstorm. 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. To think of a plot that is, as Aristotle says, surprising and yet inevitable, is a lot, lot, lot of work.

As long as the protagonist wants something, the audience will want something.

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