Everything I did was practical. You have to strip things down and get to the practical stuff.

People think they can take a pill and become a champion. But the harder you work, the luckier you get. You have to work a move hundreds or thousands of times.

Beat a man with what he doesn't know.

My philosophy has always been it's good to learn everything.

It had started with the moon, inaccessible poem that it was.

I praise loudly. I blame softly.

I have a female colleague who gets annoyed that Tina Fey seems to go out of her way in her movies to deride her looks, as if she weren't such an attractive woman.

As frustrating as my time in grad school felt, it also helped tremendously because it challenged me to figure out what it was I thought I wanted.

When a major airline goes on a route that a new entrant has gone into, reduces fares, increases capacity, and then when the new entrant goes off, they leave the route, that's not competition.

I'm not going to compromise my artistic integrity.

Nature is a gentle guide, but not more sweet and gentle than prudent and just.

Certainly the plagiarism, and dealing with the fallout of it, was the most difficult thing I've ever faced since I started writing.

Everything I thought about acting and having a movie career has changed from what I thought when I started.

When the Supreme Court moved to Washington in 1800, it was provided with no books, which probably accounts for the high quality of early opinions.