I took the liberal view for many decades, but I believe I have changed my mind.
I won't ever do e-mail.
I used to think I'd like to be a fireman - in fact, I still would - and the only drawback I could see was coming back to the firehouse, after a day of fighting fires, and still having to put in an eight-hour day writing.
I don't really have a social life.
I've been alienating my public since I was 20 years old.
It's hard for a Jew of my generation, an American Jew, who is philo-Zionistic, not to romanticize Israel.
There is a profound and ineradicable taint of antisemitism in the British.
Culture exists and evolves to relegate to habit categories of interactions the constant conscious reference to which would make human interaction impossible.
In Chicago, we love our crooks!
Movies were never an art form, they were entertainment. It just evolved into an art form from there, and it's still evolving in different ways.
You know, young actors say all the time, 'Should I use my own life experience?' And my response is, 'What choice do you have?'
I don't think there's any information to be gotten from television.
In my family, in the days prior to television, we liked to while away the evenings by making ourselves miserable, solely based on our ability to speak the language viciously.
The government, for example, has determined that black people (somehow) have fewer abilities than white people, and, so, must be given certain preferences. Anyone acquainted with both black and white people knows this assessment is not only absurd but monstrous. And yet it is the law.
My dad was an immigrant kid and a Democrat and a Jew, and we didn't know any Republicans in our group. So I grew up Democratic. My dad was a labor lawyer - a very hardworking guy, a one-horse labor lawyer - and then I went to hippie college and lived in the bubble.
The liberals in my neighbourhood wouldn't give away Brentwood to the Palestinians, but they want to give away Tel Aviv.
You can't write about history without writing about politics at some point. History is about movements of people. 'What is criminality and what is government' is a theme that runs through every history.
I like Bach. I like Randy Newman.
The Founders recognized that Government is quite literally a necessary evil, that there must be opposition, between its various branches, and between political parties, for these are the only ways to temper the individual's greed for power and the electorates' desires for peace by submission to coercion or blandishment.
The Israelis would like to live in peace within their borders; the Arabs would like to kill them all.
