I'm absolutely gonna win it, because I'm ruthless. I sit at the poker table and my job is to destroy people.

The only reason people lock their car doors when Obama walks by is they are afraid he'll tax them to death...

Sometimes the way you respond to horrific, evil deeds is the measure of one's self as a man, as a nation, as people, as a community.

...simple logic tells you that if somebody wants you dead you have one course of action: To get them deader sooner.

Just curious. Does the president of the United States have any advice for other teenage boys in America? Wounded warriors, for example . . .

It is okay to fall, but not okay to stay on the ground.

The whole world has gone back to something we are genetically engineered to do - communicating through symbols.

No matter what it is, if you get 10 people in the business talking about something, you get 10 different opinions, but you know, they're amazingly well informed.

Look, just go sit at the card table with the rest of the kids and let the adults run the country.

The lifeblood of my career has been independent film.

Do you think I want to be the one lone voice against the Hollywood liberal establishment? It's not going to do me any good.

If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire must be not to write.

All stories are lies. But good stories are lies made from light and fire. And they lift our hearts out of the dust, and out of the grave.

I write because he needs to know.

Some people do just enough to keep you around because they are AFRAID to know what life would be like without you

The ability to learn faster than competitors may be the only sustainable competitive advantage.

After making insulting remarks about Mexicans, Donald Trump has been kicked off of NBC and Univision. On the bright side, Trump's hair has a new show on Animal Planet.

Oh, the gallant fisher's life!It is the best of any;'T is full of pleasure, void of strife,And 't is beloved by many.

I think I'm losing my hair finally. And, yeah, that's kind of all I know.

Men and women are different, but if women are good enough to run homes and raise children, then their influence ought to be good for politics.

I do novels a bit backward. I look for a situation, a milieu first, and then I wait to see who walks into it.