There are plenty of good reasons for fighting, I said, but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty Himself hates with you, too.

A lot of critics think I'm stupid because my sentences are so simple and my method is so direct: they think these are defects. No. The point is to write as much as you know as quickly as possible.

Terry Kitchen asked me one time why, since I had so few gifts as a husband and father, I had gotten married. And I heard myself say: "That's the way the post-war movie goes.

Human beings will believe in all kinds of things that aren't true, and that's okay. And TV is a part of that.

A lack of seriousness has led to all sorts of wonderful insights.

Truth can be really powerful stuff if you're not expecting it.

Unhappy failures need not apply.