A man stands alone at the plate. This is the time for what? For individual achievement. There he stands alone. But in the field, what? Part of a team.

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

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.

It's only words... unless they're true.

I've been alienating my public since I was 20 years old.

If you're writing an opinion piece, it's your job to write your opinion. If, on the other hand, you wrote a novel, as Virginia Woolf tells us, it would be inappropriate if you let your novel be influenced by your political opinions.

I like Bach. I like Randy Newman.