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

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.

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.

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

i'd rather not look for a job... to let a fine one find me. And that definitely wouldn't define me as a snob!

Do not tell me what I think you're going to or I swear to God, I'm going to fly to Brazil and go all black ops on this guy for cheating on you.

My view of life is colored by humor and looking at the best in any situation.

For somebody famous, it's weird anyway to meet someone, because they have a preconceived notion of who you are.

A brainscan cannot interpret itself and neither can a data dashboard in education.

Notre nature est dans le mouvement; le repos entier est la mort. Our nature consists in movement; absolute rest is death.

I'm a war president. I make decisions here in the Oval Office in foreign policy matters with war on my mind.

There's a time for casting silver; a time for casting cannon. If that isn't in the red, it should be!

The trouble when you have a job like mine is it's your social life as well, so I need to actually [find] something to do in my downtime when my kids are at school.

I feel like it's impossible to be completely yourself, because you'll always get bored; you have to push your own limits.