The fact that people are already reading and loving something I wrote is still hard to believe.
As precious as life itself is our heritage of individual freedom, for man's free agency is a God-given gift.
Big companies often use their leverage to take stakes in would-be suppliers, especially in the technology business.
Just as the Internet drops transaction and collaboration costs in business and government, it also drops the cost of dissent, of rebellion, and even insurrection.
The blanket assertion that corporations are people obfuscates the complex issues at play in the changing business world. Corporation are institutions. People are people.
I think it would be a good thing in the creative community if there was less embarrassment of this word 'commercial' because that's how you make a business.
When you want to move somebody, you have to say to yourself: 'I'm in the emotional transportation business. I gotta move them, emotionally.'
Show business is one of those things that people can use to get themselves out of the lower rung of society.
Outlining is like putting on training wheels. It gives me the courage to write, but we always go off the outline.
I'm by no means condemning prescription medicine for mental health. I've seen it save a lot of people's lives.
For the entire state of Georgia, having the premiere of Gone With the Wind on home ground was like winning the Battle of Atlanta 75 years late.
There is a certain moment in the film when the son is in the nursing home and he goes to the television and turns it off because he sees himself in the image.
By visiting patients in their home, by helping them come to terms with their illness, I could heal when I could not cure.
It gets so boring at home. After all, how many reruns of Abbott and Costello movies can a guy watch on television?
Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.
Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home.
I keep my own personality in a cupboard under the stairs at home so that no one else can see it or nick it.
I have a three-year-old and a four-year-old at home, and my mornings are about just dealing with the fact of that. I oddly enjoy it.
I was blessed to grow up in really interesting times and to go back to a home where I was very safe.
I once saw Dizzy Gillespie at a live show, and it made me want to go home immediately and start writing.
The darker, more complex and emotional the part is, the easier it is for me. But I don't take any of that stuff home with me at the end of the day.
