The essence of jiu-jitsu is philosophy.

The audience requires not information but drama.

Before you can steal fire from the Gods you gotta be able to get coffee for the director.

The true writer must write not the acceptable but the true.

Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.

Any time two characters are talking about a third, the scene is a crock of s***.

The pursuit of Fashion is the attempt of the middle class to co-opt tragedy. In adopting the clothing, speech, and personal habits of those in straitened, dangerous, or pitiful circumstances, the middle class seeks to have what it feels to be the exigent and nonequivocal experiences had by those it emulates.