I've got a 1990 Porsche 911. It's just a Carrera, a very simple, straightforward little thing that goes like stink. I love it.
Positive rights are the right to shelter, the right to education, the right to health care, the right to a living wage. These things are - these are, I would call them, more properly, political rights rather than positive rights. And they are extremely tricky, because now we are dealing with things that are zero sum.
Moviemakers are rewarded with tax write-offs if, when seeking a location that looks like America, they seek it in America.
Once you've built the big machinery of political power, remember you won't always be the one to run it.
Liberals have invented whole college majors - psychology, sociology and women's studies - to prove that nothing is anybody's fault.
The laws of the marketplace are physical laws, and they don't become suspended in a crisis any more than the law of gravity does.
My generation of Americans was the first to really care about racism and sexism, not to mention the I Ching, plus, of course, the Earth.
You don't despair about something like the Middle East, you just do the best you can.
Everybody in the Middle East wants to explain why they're right.
Some people have facts; these can be proven. Some people have theories; these can be disproven. But people with opinions are mindless and have their minds made up about it.
To mistrust science and deny the validity of scientific method is to resign your job as a human. You'd better go look for work as a plant or wild animal.
Not much was really invented during the Renaissance, if you don't count modern civilization.
More modern poetry is written than read.
You've got to understand, people are motivated by fun. And they should be.
There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.
I've only been to New Zealand once, about 1989. It was incredibly beautiful, kind of like the ideal of where I live in New England - all that and then some - but I can't say I was there long enough to get any very clear idea.
One nice thing about making jokes is that you don't have to prove them.
Richard Nixon was the best thing that ever happened to journalism. I mean this guy was wonderful. Just when you thought he could get no worse, he got worse.
I look around my house, and everything except the kids and dogs was made in China. And I'm not sure about the kids. They have brown eyes and small noses.
Lack of romance is my real objection to writing on a computer.