We cannot live without trade. A society can neither advance nor improve without excess of disposable income. This excess can only be amassed through the production of goods and services necessary or attractive to the mass. A financial system which allows this leads to inequality; one that does not leads to mass starvation.

Mixed martial arts was invented by Brazilians, whose families had been trained by the Japanese. Those Brazilians came to the U.S., where their invention was bought out, gussied up and presented to the world, which found it good.

If You can't tell it to me in one sentence, they can't put it in TV Guide.

It's hard to write a good play because it's hard to structure a plot. If you can think of it off the top of your head, so can the audience.

We all hope. It's what keeps us alive.

If you find that a point cannot be made without narration, it is virtually certain that the point is unimportant to the story (which is to say, to the audience).

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