Storytelling is like sex. We all do it naturally. Some of us are better at it than others.

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 essence of jiu-jitsu is philosophy.

There is no such thing as character other than the habitual action, as Mr. Aristotle told us two thousand years ago.

Art and mass entertainment and propaganda, they can all be plotted on the same graph, but there is a difference.

All rhetorical questions are accusations.

People ask me, 'What do you do?' And I tell them I'm a writer, but always with the silent reservation, 'I am, of course, not really a writer. Hemingway was a writer.'