Television is democracy at its ugliest.

You British plundered half the world for your own profit. Let's not pass it off as the Age of Enlightenment.

Ma, sooner or later there comes a point in a man's life when he's gotta face some facts. And one fact I've got to face is whateverit is women like, I ain't got it.

Stop thinking about writing as art. Think of it as work. If you’re an artist, whatever you do is going to be art. If you’re not an artist, at least you can do a good day’s work.

It's always the generals with the bloodiest records who are the first to shout what a hell it is. And it's always the war widows who lead the Memorial Day parades.

Americans don’t want drama, especially good drama, they just want their boredom killed.

Artists don't talk about art. Artists talk about work. If I have anything to say to young writers, it's stop thinking of writing as art. Think of it as work.

The worst kind of censorship is the kind that takes place in your own mind before you sit down to a typewriter.

Television is the menace that everyone loves to hate but can't seem to live without.

God save us from people who do the morally right thing. It's always the rest of us who get broken in half.

I'm not a great writer. I'm a great rewriter.

Poetry keeps mein a highly drunken stateof divinity.

Learn the rules. And play by the rules.

Where military service begins, logic ends.

If there is any characteristic that is distinctly human, it is the capability for reflective self-consciousness.

When you lose the title, that doesn't mean you lose the contract to what you had. Just like when you win the title, it doesn't mean you win brains, PhDs and MAs.

When I was a young student, I thought grow-ups would come and make things work. Now I realize that grown-ups are just kids with wrinkles.

This isn't going to be easy," I grumbled as we headed toward the exit. Bones shrugged. "Nothing worthwhile ever is.

Music religious heat inspires, It wakes the soul, and lifts it high, And wings it with sublime desires, And fits it to bespeak the Deity.

What acting means is that you've got to get out of your own skin.

There's no way to use power for good.