Our job, as writers is to do our jobs.

The government, for example, has determined that black people (somehow) have fewer abilities than white people, and, so, must be given certain preferences. Anyone acquainted with both black and white people knows this assessment is not only absurd but monstrous. And yet it is the law.

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.'

When we leave the play saying how spectacular the sets or costumes were, or how interesting the ideas, it means we had a bad time.

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.

Always do things the least interesting way, the most blunt way, and you make a better movie. This is my experience.

The liberals in my neighbourhood wouldn't give away Brentwood to the Palestinians, but they want to give away Tel Aviv.