I have sworn off the news because there is nothing new, and reiteration of the well-known and unfortunate serves no purpose other than as the bad nar… - David Mamet

If I could go back would I do it differently? Well, I can't go back.

We don't have to worry about making it interesting; all we have to worry about is getting rid of the pig.

The basis of drama is ... is the struggle of the hero towards a specific goal at the end of which he realizes that what kept him from it was, in the lesser drama, civilization and, in the great drama, the discovery of something that he did not set out to discover but which can be seen retrospectively as inevitable. The example Aristotle uses, of course, is Oedipus.