A man who makes a one-dollar profit on his expense account is dishonest. A man who loses five cents on one is a damned fool.

Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.

What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins.

Men are not against you, they are merely for themselves.

The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from.

An editor should have a pimp for a brother so he'd have someone to look up to.

Every man should be allowed to love two cities, his own and San Francisco

A book is never finished; it's abandoned.

He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.

Sometimes I think my writing sounds like I walked out of the room and left the typewriter running.

News is history shot on the wing. The huntsmen from the Fourth Estate seek to bag only the peacock or the eagle of the swifting day.

The emotional tone or affect of the tale should be hot and engaged, not remote and dispassionate.

Madness plants mirrors in the desert. I find the means frightening.

The musician who always plays on the same string is laughed at.

Anchorman' is my favorite movie of all time and Ron Burgundy is one of my favorite characters of all time. It's my 'Gone With the Wind.

I'd be happy to have regular face-to-face meetings at Downing Street with David Cameron to argue the case for alternative economic policies.

In all societies that have applied a form of socialism, a certain degree of social economic equality has been achieved.

They continue to criticize me for my outside shooting, but I continue to make outside shots.

"Resident Evil" was different. I like to challenge myself and do different things sometimes. So when it came to me, I was, like, "Come on with it, I'll do it."

Endemic is a very hard, a very wide ranging word. I also have to be very careful not to prejudice the course of justice that is taking place now.

The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them.