What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It's not good at much else.

To Ronald Wilson Regan, The Fortieth President of The United States: The Man Who Won The War.

I am a politician which means I am a liar and a crook. When I am not kissing babies I am stealing their lollypops.

I think it's an intellectual duty for a person who lives in a free society to read material not only with which you agree, but with which you disagree. Because every so often somebody you think is wrong will actually turn out to be right.

The difference between me and you is that I do good fiction.

The only person who has artistic control is the director, and 'director' is how you spell God in Hollywood.

Privacy and loneliness were the traditional luxuries accorded to a skipper.