Every lawyer shall tell his or her client that becoming involved with the legal system is like three years of experimental chemotherapy, one hundred percent guaranteed not to work.

I look at this life as a puzzle without all the pieces in the box.

Hopeless. Freak. Elephant. Pitiful

Not what we have but what we enjoy constitutes our abundance.

We live in this world in order always to learn industriously and to enlighten each other by means of discussion and to strive vigorously to promote the progress of science and the fine arts.

I'm a playwright who gets involved in movies when I'm not writing a play.

Life for delays and doubts no time does give, None ever yet made haste enough to live.

No army has ever done so much with so little.

Currencies are things that you use to pay for other things; commodities are things that you buy. If art is going to be one or the other, it's going to be a commodity, not a currency.

It's taken a while for me to convince people that I can do something other than Scully. And it still takes effort.

If you've a story, make sure it's a whole one, with details close to hand. It's the difference between a good lie and getting caught.