Liberation and equal-rights issues notwithstanding, it was a man’s job to make a woman feel cherished and respected.
Colleges typically did not tell you that ninety percent of your education came after you hung the parchment on the wall. People might ask for a rebate.
Learn to write the same way you learn to play golf. You do it and keep doing it until you get it right.
Courage is being the only only one who knows how terrified you are.
Success will ruin your life.
What do I know about sex? I’m a married man.
It’s not right to say that our loss in Vietnam turned out to be a gain. But lessons were learned. And they were the right lessons.
I was one of the first generations to watch television. TV exposes people to news, to information, to knowledge, to entertainment. How is it bad?
It is a principle of diplomacy that one must know something of the truth in order to lie convincingly.
Wars are begun by frightened men.
A lawyer is just like an attack dog, only without a conscience.
There was a time when nails were high-tech. There was a time when people had to be told how to use a telephone. Technology is just a tool. People use tools to improve their lives.
America is the most inventive country in the world because everybody has access to information.
There are only two ways we can be beaten: we die or we give up. And we’re not giving up.
Suspense is achieved by information control: What you know. What the reader knows. What the characters know.
Show me an elitist, and I’ll show you a loser.
Helicopters don’t fly, they vibrate so badly the ground rejects them.
The human condition today is better than it’s ever been, and technology is one of the reasons for that.
The only person who has artistic control is the director, and ‘director’ is how you spell God in Hollywood.
If you don’t write the book, the book ain’t gonna get written.