Actors are good liars, writers are good liars with good memories.

Plot and character are virtually the same thing.

You can have data without information, but you cannot have information without data.

An attempt to write nothing but characterization will soon bog down; I for one don't want to have somebody tell me about someone else.

Actors are good liars; writers are good liars with good memories.

Police do not belong in war zones.

Its obvious, but perhaps worth saying, that happiness has virtually nothing to do with the state of your intellect.

Our species is on the verge of changes that will fundamentally alter what it means to be human... and we are the people driving that change.

It's very strange writing science fiction in a world that moves as fast as ours does.

You want to balance the budget in this country? We change the salary structure for Congress and the President. Every year they don't balance the budget, we don't pay them.

As a fiscal conservative, I think that our government should pay for itself.

If people aren't able to see your magnificence that's their loss, not yours.

Tell me the direction of your thoughts and I will tell you the direction of your life!

There is nothing that's off limits. If people think something is off limits, I make it my business to go make a joke about it; that's my job.

I miss the comedy of the '70s and '80s, like 'Only Fools And Horses' and 'Fawlty Towers,' so I'm glad I'm put in that category.

The internet is very democratizing in some ways, but it also has other effects.

In religion is much tiredness of people, a giving over of their doing to Someone Else.

They go the long way but we take the short cut Give me the blonde hair, long weave, short cut

I'm a real American baby!

It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body.

I'm a very boring person.