Many players will not improve because they cannot bear self-knowledge.

The realization that I came to is that each citizen for himself or herself understands the economics, which is, "I better make more than I spend and I better put something aside for a rainy day, and I want to get a good idea about what to do with the surplus so that perhaps it can grow while I'm sleeping." And that that's capitalism. Everybody practices it, but half of the country - those on the left - deny that it's true.

President Obama seems to understand the Constitution as a 'set of suggestions.'

They say the definition of ambivalence is watching your mother-in-law drive over a cliff in your new Cadillac.

Being a writer in Hollywood is like going to Hitler's Eagle Nest with a great idea for a bar mitzvah.

Consider: for all the gobbledegook [film studio] executives spout about backstory, all that we, the audience, want to know is what happens next. That's the only thing that's going on. . . . Character is nothing other than action, and character-driven means The plot stinks, and you'd better hope the star is popular enough to open the movie in spite of it.

The surprise is half the battle. Many things are half the battle, losing is half the battle. Let's think about what's the whole battle.