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

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.

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.

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

Oh, Life, I am yours. Whatever it is you want of me, I am ready to give.

Remove the mask. Let me love the darkness you hide underneath.

An optimist is a man who has never had much experience.

A law is not good merely because the legislature wills it, but the legislature has the mortal duty to will only that which is good.

I've always had an aversion to debt.

Oh, isn't life a terrible thing, thank God?

There isn't a war on terror, there is a war of terror.

At a brunch potluck, I realize that I do, in fact, hate everybody.

If I was not allowed to mention that I was in the film industry, I could go six months without getting a kiss.

Not even the most powerful organs of the press, including Time, Newsweek, and The New York Times, can discover a new artist or certify his work and make it stick. They can only bring you the scores.