It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.
I saw many aspects of the country which I needed to see in order that I might know what we need to do.
Be sure you positively identify your target before you pull the trigger.
I really wanted to go onstage. Not movies. But I ended up under contract to Paramount. Now I adore film work.
When I was a kid, I went to the store and asked the guy, Do you have any toy train schedules?
I'm all for selling books, but when guys are burning my house down, that's where I draw the line.
The failure to dissect the cause of war leaves us open for the next installment.
Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.
The stardom thing happened and now I'm trying to make a comeback, if you want to call it that.
It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual.
In the old days when people invented a new function they had something useful in mind.
Is there a sharper commentary on American culture and the world than The Simpsons?
You become a writer because you need to become a writer - nothing else.
Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.
The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names.
The unemployment rate is still twice as high for blacks as for whites.
I just throw it out and see what happens. If it sounds and feels right, then I continue.
If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.
If we can play like that every week we'll get some level of consistency.
Orwell is almost our litmus test. Some of his satirical writing looks like reality these days.