Tax policy is not about compassion.
The Democrats are obsessing about raising tax rates, while the GOP talks about closing loopholes.
When it comes to the teapot tempest that is the Hillary Clinton email imbroglio, the real controversy isn't about politics or regulations. It's about journalism and the weak standards employed to manufacture the scandal du jour.
Kids used to tease me unmercifully about that name.
As a kid, I got teased about my unibrow. Now I love my brows.
The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is.
Every technological revolution takes about 50 years.
Ultimately, what the tech industry really cares about is ushering in the future, but it conflates technological progress with societal progress.
If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
The kind of fiction I'm trying to write is about telling the truth.
I'm not tempted to write a song about George W. Bush. I couldn't figure out what sort of song I would write. That's the problem: I don't want to satirise George Bush and his puppeteers, I want to vaporise them.
It's very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over.
The press these days should be rather careful about its role. We may have acquired some tendencies about over-involvement that we had better overcome.
Tennessee Williams knew about the South, but he would clean it up and lie about it.
A lot of people don't know that my background is completely classical. For a while there, I was all about Moliere and the Greeks and Brecht and Tennessee Williams.
It's not about the money. This is about Terri. It's not about the Schindlers, it's not about the legislators, it's not about me, it's about what Terri Schiavo wanted.
Football is like war. It's about taking territory.
Manufacturing is finite, but human intellect is infinite. Textile is all about manufacturing, and industries like pharmaceuticals are all about human intellect.
Music is about textures as well as melody.
My mother's from Thailand, and they're very strict about girls in bikinis, but I would love to do a shoot in the floating market in Thailand.