We respond to a drama to that extent to which it corresponds to our dream life.

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

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

My alma mater is the Chicago Public Library. I got what little educational foundation I got in the third-floor reading room, under the tutelage of a Coca-Cola sign.

The Founders recognized that Government is quite literally a necessary evil, that there must be opposition, between its various branches, and between political parties, for these are the only ways to temper the individual's greed for power and the electorates' desires for peace by submission to coercion or blandishment.

To find beauty in the sad, hope in the midst of loss, and dignity in failure is great poetic art.

I won't ever do e-mail.