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.

My alma mater is the Chicago Public Library.

The conscious mind is going to suggest the obvious, the cliché, because these things have offered the security of having succeeded in the past.

Each culture has its own form of staged combat, evolved from its particular method of street fighting and cleaned up for presentation as a spectacle, e.g. savate, Cornish wrestling, karate, kung-fu.

Films have degenerated to their original operation as carnival amusement - they offer not drama but thrills.

As you all know first prize is a Cadillac El Dorado. Anyone wanna see second prize? Second prize is a set of steak knives. Third prize is you're fired.

Always tell the truth - it's the easiest thing to remember.