You want to balance the budget in this country? We change the salary structure for Congress and the President. Every year they don't balance the budget, we don't pay them.

Plot and character are virtually the same thing.

You can have data without information, but you cannot have information without data.

An attempt to write nothing but characterization will soon bog down; I for one don't want to have somebody tell me about someone else.

Actors are good liars; writers are good liars with good memories.

Police do not belong in war zones.

Its obvious, but perhaps worth saying, that happiness has virtually nothing to do with the state of your intellect.

Our species is on the verge of changes that will fundamentally alter what it means to be human... and we are the people driving that change.

It's very strange writing science fiction in a world that moves as fast as ours does.

As a fiscal conservative, I think that our government should pay for itself.

The federal debt in this country is principally of Republican design.

Do not forget your Creator in the days of your youth.

Then you must reconcile yourself to the fact that something is always hurt by any change. If you do this, you will not be hurt yourself.

By seizing every opportunity for kindness, forgiveness, healing, and love that crosses my path each day, I hope that my death, although perhaps sad for some, will be gracefully concluded.

Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand.

Yeah, I want to be liked, obviously. Everybody does.

Sure, this will probably end up being another in a long line of emotionally crippling misadventures...but let's try to have some fun along the way.

Every woman needs a daughter to tell her stories to.

All I really want is a three-room house. The home I have designed at my new farm in Bedford, New York, is a three-room house: bedroom on top, living room in the middle, and kitchen on the ground.

The hardest thing on earth is choosing what matters.

Chess is difficult, it demands work, serious reflection and zealous research.