My dad was a labour lawyer, and the ideas that I grew up with - bad management, bad capitalism, robber barons - when I applied this to my own life, I saw that we are all on both sides of the coin.

Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance.

People may or may not say what they mean... but they always say something designed to get what they want.

Many players will not improve because they cannot bear self-knowledge.

Every scene should be able to answer three questions: "Who wants what from whom? What happens if they don't get it? Why now?"

We recipients of the boon of liberty have always been ready, when faced with discomfort, to discard any and all first principles of liberty, and, further, to indict those who do not freely join with us in happily arrogating those principles.

Don't write stage directions. If it is not apparent what the character is trying to accomplish by saying the line, tell us how the character said it or whether or not she moved to the couch isn't going to aid the case.