I'm not a great writer. I'm a great rewriter.

We've established the most enormous medical entity ever conceived... and people are sicker than ever. We cure nothing! We heal nothing!

Stop thinking about writing as art. Think of it as work. If you’re an artist, whatever you do is going to be art. If you’re not an artist, at least you can do a good day’s work.

Ma, sooner or later there comes a point in a man's life when he's gotta face some facts. And one fact I've got to face is whateverit is women like, I ain't got it.

Television will do anything for a rating... anything!

I'm not sentimental about war. I see nothing noble in widows.

Don't think of it as art, think of it as work.