Benign environmentalists are opposed to pollution, as all sensible people are; malign environmentalists are opposed to energy and most of what it enables.

The thing that makes me feel young, honestly, is making television. It's the only thing that excites me, the way that you get excited when you're a kid. That's why I still do it.

The great scandal of American life is that we pay for German levels of government without enjoying the related benefits.

Detroit's political leadership is a parasite that has outgrown its host.

If you're not willing to have somebody hauled off at gunpoint over the project, then it's probably not a legitimate concern of the state.

I love to go back and write and direct another film one day, but that's on the backburner for now because I'm involved with so much television at the moment.

I'm always going to look and refer to things and remember things differently than perhaps a real or honest viewer can. I'm tainted with knowing too much. But I still very much love it.

I look at it [Scream movie] and think, wow, I can't believe I wrote that at such a young age. I also look at it and go, ohhh ouch, that dialogue, whoa.

Health care and education are too important NOT to be left to the free market.

The difference between communism and socialism is that under socialism central planning ends with a gun in your face, whereas under communism central planning begins with a gun in your face.

Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.

Nothing would mean anything if I didn't live a life of use to others.

From the moment a creature becomes aware of God as God and of itself as self, the terrible alternative of choosing God or self for the centre is opened to it.

I really don't know enough about the structure of fiction.

Art is one of the few places where you can put it in a constructive way where it won't burn you up inside or hurt anyone.

In writing I search for believability, simplicity, and emotional impact.

I have noticed that the Universe loves Gratitude. The more Grateful you are, the more goodies you get

This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.

There is not much collective security in a flock of sheep on the way to the butcher.