I wanted to see my name on the cover of a book. If your name is in the Library of Congress, you're immortal.

I do not over-intellectualise the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story.

Back in pre-Revolutionary America cruel and unusual punishment meant the rack and burning at the stake... in more recent rulings it has been taken to mean the absence of cable television and denial of sex-change operations, or just overcrowding in the prisons.

The Good of the People was a laudable enough goal, but in denying a man's soul, an enduring part of his being, Marxism stripped away the foundation of human dignity and individual value. It also cast aside the objective measure of justice and ethics which, he decided, was the principal legacy of religion to civilized life.

Probably what pushed the Russians over the edge was SDI... They realized they couldn't beat us...

Never ask what sort of computer a guy drives. If he's a Mac user, he'll tell you. If not, why embarrass him?

There are only two ways we can be beaten: we die or we give up. And we're not giving up.