I never ask for mercy and seek no one's sympathy.

[Canada's social welfare system is] an overgenerous reinsurance policy for an underachieving people.

All emphasis in American prisons is on punishment, retribution, and disparagement, and almost none is on rehabilitation.

Given the genocidal belligerence of Iranian threats against Israel, it is hard to take issue with Israel's right to preemptive self-defense.

Greed has been severely underestimated and denigrated - unfairly so, in my opinion.

There is not one shred of evidence that the Internet has had any downward influence on North American or European newspaper circulation.

Economics is half psychology and half Grade Three arithmetic, and the U.S. does not now have either half right.

Terrorists cannot threaten the survival of a great nation.

The American legal industry is a medieval guild in which the prosecutors, bar, and bench join hands to ensure that legal invoices are paid, no matter how excessive.

I made 50 million bucks yesterday. That's a flameout I could get used to.

The U.S. prosecution service is eating at the soul of the American republic. It is an absolute danger to everyone.

When in doubt, ignore and be horribly unimpressed

Sometimes, we need to accept that life doesn’t always go the way we planned.

I am a recovering perfectionist, and like all in recovery, I do better some days than others!

All my buddies over the years, like Kevin Costner and the guys - I see em go here, I see em go there - but I just do my work.

I think a playwright must be his own dramaturg.

For me the moral dilemma this past year has been how to make peace with the unacceptable.

Wise man is a good Sherpa; he takes you to the highest places!

What is the character trying to say? Why? Be as specific as you can, using sense images that evoke something about the character. Try using the character's senses, even if the character is you.

I don't have to write jokes. I don't have to write insults. If you ask the man of the hour in the hot seat, my mere existence is clearly insult enough.

I don't believe in waiting for great feelings. I need to wire myself for positivity and gratitude. I need to build a highway to those.