When we leave the play saying how spectacular the sets or costumes were, or how interesting the ideas, it means we had a bad time.
It's upsetting to be a man in our society.
If you're writing an opinion piece, it's your job to write your opinion. If, on the other hand, you wrote a novel, as Virginia Woolf tells us, it would be inappropriate if you let your novel be influenced by your political opinions.
Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.
I hate the computer. I hate their spell-check. I won't ever do e-mail.
People only speak to get something.
I was fortunate enough to have a rambling youth.
Art and mass entertainment and propaganda, they can all be plotted on the same graph, but there is a difference.
My dad was a labour lawyer, and the ideas that I grew up with - bad management, bad capitalism, robber barons - when I applied this to my own life, I saw that we are all on both sides of the coin.
The quality I most admire in a man is steadfastness.
I've always been fascinated by the picaresque.
In a world we find terrifying, we ratify that which doesn't threaten us.
When the three branches of government have failed to represent the citizenry and the mass of the media has failed to represent the citizenry, then the citizenry better represent the citizenry.
Roll back the clock, and every possession of every great country started with a crime.
It's hard to write a good play because it's hard to structure a plot. If you can think of it off the top of your head, so can the audience.
The individual is not only best qualified to provide his own personal defense, he is the only one qualified to do so: and his right to do so is guaranteed by the Constitution.
It is not the constitutional prerogative of the Government to determine needs.
I love all insider memoirs. It doesn't matter whether it's truck-drivers or doctors. I think everybody likes to go backstage, find out what people think and what they talk about and what specialised job they have.
If, indeed, a firearm were more dangerous to its possessors than to potential aggressors, would it not make sense for the government to arm all criminals, and let them accidentally shoot themselves? Is this absurd? Yes, and yet the government, of course, is arming criminals.
You get rich through luck. You get rich through crime. You get rich through fulfilling the needs of another. You can be as greedy as you like. If you can't do one of those three things, you ain't going to get any money.
