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" It's hard for a Jew of my generation, an American Jew, who is philo-Zionistic, not to romanticize Israel. "

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" It's only words... unless they're true. "

" Art and mass entertainment and propaganda, they can all be plotted on the same graph, but there is a difference. "

" A liberal pretending to be a conservative? That's like a straight person pretending to be gay to get greater acceptance. "

" I love working on a typewriter - the rhythm, the sound; it's like playing the piano, which I do, too. "

" I've been alienating my public since I was 20 years old. "

" The product of the artist has become less important than the fact of the artist. We wish to absorb this person. We wish to devour someone who has experienced the tragic. In our society this person is much more important than anything he might create. "

" I took the liberal view for many decades, but I believe I have changed my mind. "

" A play is basically a long, formalistic polemic. You can write it without the poetry, and if you do, you may have a pretty good play. We know this because we see plays in translation. Not many people speak Norwegian or Danish or whatever guys like Ibsen spoke, or Russian - yet we understand Chekhov and the others. "

" I like Bach. I like Randy Newman. "

" I don't think there's any information to be gotten from television. "

" We Americans have always considered Hollywood, at best, a sinkhole of depraved venality. And, of course, it is. It is not a protective monastery of aesthetic truth. It is a place where everything is incredibly expensive. "

" 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. "

" Writing a novel is an incredibly free experience. One puts one's self in a narrative mode. You can go off in any direction - the past, the future, or go laterally, or include one's own beliefs. It's total freedom. "

" There's no such thing as talent; you just have to work hard enough. "

" When I started out I was a failed actor. "

" Conservatives believe in smaller government and in the power of the electorate. So I think that we're less likely to try to use a dramatic forum to warp people's political views. "

" I've always been fascinated by the picaresque. "

" American football seems to resemble soccer in that one scores by putting the ball through the opponent's goal; but football, truly is about land. The Settlers want to move the line of scrimmage Westward, the Native Americans want to move it East. "

" Obama is a tyrant the same way FDR was a tyrant. He has a view of presidential power that states: the government is in control of the country, and the president is in charge of the government. He's taken an imperial view of the presidency. "

" Listen, here's the thing about an English degree - if you sat somebody down and asked them to make a list of the writers they admire over the last hundred years, see how many of them got a degree in English. "

" 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. "

" The poker player learns that sometimes both science and common sense are wrong; that the bumblebee can fly; that, perhaps, one should never trust an expert; that there are more things in Heaven and Earth than are dreamt of by those with an academic bent. "

" 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. "

" There's something in me that just wants to create dialogue. "

" The essence of jiu-jitsu is philosophy. "

" There is a profound and ineradicable taint of antisemitism in the British. "

" I'm entitled to my political opinions, and I get to vote because I'm an American. "

" I'm greedy and ambitious like everybody else. "

" I grew up in a tough neighborhood and we used to say you can get further with a kind word and a gun than just a kind word. "