I'm not a great writer. I'm a great rewriter.

You British plundered half the world for your own profit. Let's not pass it off as the Age of Enlightenment.

Ma, sooner or later there comes a point in a man's life when he's gotta face some facts. And one fact I've got to face is whateverit is women like, I ain't got it.

Stop thinking about writing as art. Think of it as work. If you’re an artist, whatever you do is going to be art. If you’re not an artist, at least you can do a good day’s work.

It's always the generals with the bloodiest records who are the first to shout what a hell it is. And it's always the war widows who lead the Memorial Day parades.

Americans don’t want drama, especially good drama, they just want their boredom killed.

Artists don't talk about art. Artists talk about work. If I have anything to say to young writers, it's stop thinking of writing as art. Think of it as work.

The worst kind of censorship is the kind that takes place in your own mind before you sit down to a typewriter.

Television is the menace that everyone loves to hate but can't seem to live without.

God save us from people who do the morally right thing. It's always the rest of us who get broken in half.

Television is democracy at its ugliest.

Working with the morning pages, we begin to sort through the differences between our real feelings, which are often secret, and our official feelings, those on the record for public display.

For a guy who wore layers upon layers of armor, his give-a-shit was showing.

The American flag represents all of us and all the values we hold sacred.

I got involved in script development from the beginning. It was nice to see how a film gets made right from the beginning. It was quite hands-on for me.

If all our national holidays were observed on Wednesdays, we could wind up with nine-day weekends.

I hope my own children never have to fight a war.

Keep varying the program. Your body will tell you what to do.

The silicone we use is the hardest, most UV stable we can get, and we have done enormous amounts of testing and research to get a paint solution that is extremely hardy and repairable.

Effort is the key in the relative; effortlessness is the key to the Absolute.

She lov'd me for the dangers I had pass'd, And I lov'd her that she did pity them