There's nothing as scary as the future.

Wrestling was my first success, the first thing that confirmed that I could be good at anything. Devoting yourself to wrestling, or tennis, or skiing, or dance, or to a musical instrument is a longing to be disciplined for a purpose.

If you feel strongly about people having abortions, don't have one. But we are a country - USA - that likes to be punitive. We want to restrict. It is a kind of religious fervor run amuck.

Writing is hard. I learned how to work hard from wrestling, not English courses.

Don't forget this, too: Rumors aren't interested in the unsensational story; rumors don't care what's true.

In an episodic treatment, such as a teleplay is, you have the ability to do what you can do in a novel, which is flash back and flash forward in the same instant, in the same scene, in the same voice.

If I had to be anything," he told her, "I'd probably be a socialist, but I don't want to be anything.