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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed, but our power to do so is increased.

I think modern television shows, with their intricate plots, are stimulating our minds. This is one reason IQs have been going up.

Her face lay still on the air under his face.

I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.

It's interesting most people don't really know what a producer does and really the producer is the very first person on-site and the very last one to leave.

We didnt come all this way for no two seats when all of us is tired.

I am positively against all this crap which is carried on first in the name of this thing, then in the name of that. I believe only in what is active, immediate, and personal.

I don't speak Italian, but I do speak Moschino.

I'm good at asking other people questions, but I'm not really good at answering questions.

Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things.