Having spent too many years in show business, the one thing I see that succeeds is persistence. It's the person who just ain't gonna go home. I decided early on that I wasn't going to go home. This is what I'll be doing until they put me in jail or in a coffin.

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.

Obama is a tyrant the same way FDR was a tyrant. He has a view of presidential power that states: the government is in control of the country, and the president is in charge of the government. He's taken an imperial view of the presidency.

The conscious mind is going to suggest the obvious, the cliché, because these things have offered the security of having succeeded in the past.

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.

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

Where in the wide history of the world do we find art created by the excessively wealthy, powerful, or educated?