Artists don't talk about art. Artists talk about work. If I have anything to say to young writers, it's stop thinking of writing as art. Think of it as work.
I'm a human being, god-dammit. My life has value!
I'm not sentimental about war. I see nothing noble in widows.
Television is democracy at its ugliest.
Television is not the truth. Television is a goddamned amusement park.
All my brothers, my brothers-in-law, they're always telling me what a good-hearted guy I am. You don't get to be good-hearted by accident. You get kicked around long enough, you get to be a real professor of pain.