To strip a man of all loyalties but those to the state, makes him not only a worm but a monster, without a shred of humanity.
For too long, tricks and traps in mortgages, credit cards, and other financial transactions have stripped wealth from working families.
I always think the Sex Pistols and the Ramones as very, very important because they stripped things down.
The present is what is happening when you strip away all the resentments of your past and all the worries you have about your future.
[after being strip-searched] Fenster: Man, I had a finger up my asshole tonight. Hockney: Is it Friday already?
I've always recorded the same way. I put down as many ideas as I have, then strip them away at the mixdown. It's better to have too much music than not enough.
One of the things I wanted to do with 'The Turn' was write a production of songs that could be stripped down to one or two instruments if you chose to do it.
Some of the reviewers wanted less. Some wanted lots more. Some wanted lots more of something else. But these strips are exactly what they are.
A foundation representing firefighters who die in the line of duty is calling for Congress to strip the Centers for Disease Control of its role investigating firefighter deaths.
One of the best things that happened for me as a playwright is becoming a comic-book writer.
As psychotic as it gets outside, the comic can be more psychotic.
I read the comics long before I was ever involved with the films.
We are, in the comics, the last frontier of good, wholesome family humor and entertainment.
As a comic, you try something and if it works you go with it and grind it to death.
I'm not a great joke writer, which is odd for a comic to say, but I'm not.
Autobiographical comics, I love them. I love them.
Plays have been made of my comics.
I was never really a comic-book fanatic.
So many comics have such low self-esteem.
I've always wanted to play more comic parts.
And I've never viewed comics as assignments for the client.