It’s not a lie. It’s a gift for fiction.

Like Lincoln said: "If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong," and I feel the same way about the leftist dismantling of the West. If that's not wrong, then nothing is wrong.

If, indeed, a firearm were more dangerous to its possessors than to potential aggressors, would it not make sense for the government to arm all criminals, and let them accidentally shoot themselves? Is this absurd? Yes, and yet the government, of course, is arming criminals.

What we're trying to do is find two or more shots the juxtaposition of which will give us the idea.

In a restaurant one is both observed and unobserved. Joy and sorrow can be displayed and observed "unwittingly," the writer scowling naively and the diners wondering, What the hell is he doing?

It is the writer’s job to make the play interesting. It is the actor’s job to make the performance truthful.

I grew up in a tough neighborhood and we used to say you can get further with a kind word and a gun than just a kind word.