When I started understanding how science works, it occurred to me that there just is no evidence that there is a God.

Don't ask your readers to admire your words when you want them to believe your story.

Red tape has killed more people than bullets.

The problem is that Americans would like to be independent of the rest of the world ... Except the world ain't that way. Trying to be independent of the rest of the world is to commit suicide.

Feeding the starving poor only increases their number.

First drafts are for learning what your story is about.

If you hold on to the handle, it's easier to maintain the illusion of control. But it's more fun if you just let the wind carry you.

The Washington establishment and the financial and media corporations that fund it...Their agenda is to elect crooked Hillary Clinton.

I'm not used to be the adult. I'm not very good at being the adult. To some regard, I wanted to just hang out and joke around, like I would normally, but I had to try to find the movie to shoot.

The world is chiefly a mental fact. From mind it receives the forms of time and space, the principle of casuality[sic], color, warmth, and beauty. Were there no mind, there would be no world.

Most furniture is not made for people - they are made for the people who sell them.

Truth has never been, can never be, contained in any one creed or system.

Your education is a dress rehearsal for a life that is yours to lead.

I've been an Obama supporter since he announced he was campaigning. I was aware of him as a senator, but I wasn't as engaged as I probably should've been.

I liked writing, and I loved movies, obsessively loved movies, but I had never made the leap of thinking I would actually come out here and write stuff.