Writers are idiots with Underwoods.

If two men on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the time, both are useless.

Television won't last because people will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night.

Slap some keys on her and we'll have a piano.

Don't say yes until I finish talking.

Stars don't make movies. Movies make stars.

Whatever you have not strived hard to achieve will not strive hard to fade. Success built on hard work is the kind that lasts longer.

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.

(...) I do want to leave, in the desperate way that an animal wants to escape a trap. Wild and rabid. Ready to gnaw through bone.

It is necessary, first of all, to find a correct logical starting point, one which can lead us to a natural and sound interpretation of the empirical facts.

I hate to sound like Julie the cruise director but it's people that I think about all the time.

I'm very comfortable with being productive. I like doing things, and I like creating things. As far as being powerful, I guess I'm comfortable with it. It's not really how I think of myself.

Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.

He [Barack Obama] is been boffo at fundraising - 220 fundraisers, and he raised something approaching $1 billion.

Beauty, if you do not open your doors, takes age from lack of use.

The freedom to criticize judges and other public officials is necessary to a vibrant democracy. The problem comes when healthy criticism is replaced with more destructive intimidation and sanctions.