Everybody makes their own fun. If you don't make it yourself, it isn't fun. It's entertainment.

There's no such thing as talent; you just have to work hard enough.

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.

Forget narrative, backstory, characterisation, exposition, all of that. Just make the audience want to know what happens next.

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?

The pain of losing is diverting. So is the thrill of winning. Winning, however, is lonelier, as those you've won money from are not likely to commiserate with you. Winning takes getting used to.

In a world we find terrifying, we ratify that which doesn't threaten us.