Facts tend to take the punch out of a good hate rant and are therefore left best unsaid.

As a writer, as a storyteller, you have to have your emotions close, and the older I've gotten, the less I've worried about not displaying emotions.

I don't know when I made that active decision to be a writer or to try to write, but I know I always liked storytelling.

When it comes to fighting for freedom, those who are willing to fight should not be limited by our bigotry. Only rewarded with our gratitude.

For every horrific event, something beautiful happens.

My kids will find me walking around the house talking to myself and think I'm going crazy. I like to read the scripts out loud and really get the rhythm for the dialogue.

There's something very special about knowing what you want to do and knowing the story you want to tell, but finding it together.

With fear of stating the obvious: Freedom belongs to 'We the People,' not 'They the Politicians.'

Whatever you do, whether you're doing a television drama or a romantic comedy, you want to be relevant, to some degree.

I think I'm an overly emotional person. I feel a lot, but I don't believe that's unique to me or that's how I am able to do the things I do.

I've written films that are violent. I'm not big on sitting and watching violence.

Your never alone, look around you there are so many objects, they don't live but are there in your presence, your never truly alone

Paradox is the pathos or the passion of philosophy.

Fear true fear is a savage frenzy. Of all the insanities of which we are capable it is surely the most cruel.

Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.

If I can't love Hitler, I can't love at all.

Hunger finds no fault with the cookery.

If on paper one would say, "You're gonna spend three weeks in Death Valley," you say, "No, I'm not going to be able to." Very often, very quickly you forget about it.

Unintended Consequences is full of substance, it is one of the must-read books of the year, and once I finish it I will be giving it a second read through right away.

Cattlemen have lost more in the last few years than anybody and say less about it.