“When Hollywood sees a good story about a man who sells confidence, they see themselves and they like it.”

I am so used to having a comfortable life. What will it be like when I am no longer able to just buy anything I want?

I would say, based on the little I know, Darwinism explains microevolution within species quite well. As to its broader consequence and implications, I don’t think it explains individual species evolution at all well.

I do all of the grocery shopping in my little family. I buy cheese, of many different kinds, sliced packaged meats and poultry, bagels, immense quantities of eggs, pre-made fried chicken. Milk. Bacon. It is insane how much dairy, deli and bakery stuff I buy.

Science leads you to killing people.

I spend so much time in fear of going broke, and I never have been even remotely close to going broke.

Screaming at children over their grades, especially to the point of the child’s tears, is child abuse, pure and simple. It’s not funny and it’s not good parenting. It is a crushing, scarring, disastrous experience for the child. It isn’t the least bit funny.

If there is no God, then man sometimes thinks he is god, and sometimes tries to live like a god.

No one will do it for you.

Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing.

Life lived to help others is the only life that matters.

When we just saw that man, I think it was Mr. Myers, talking about how great scientists were, I was thinking to myself the last time any of my relatives saw scientists telling them what to do they were telling them to go to the showers to get gassed.

I hope it won’t come as a surprise to anyone that a big part of male homosexual behavior is interest in young boys.

You cannot win if you’re not at the table. You have to be where the action is.

It means zero to be against greed.

I’ve never liked the idea of just having an office in a college somewhere and teaching classes and going to the library and doing research all day. I’ve never wanted that. The glamorous life is the life that appeals to me.

The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

Without stories we would go mad. Life would lose its moorings or lose its orientations. even in silence we are living our stories

All the stories have to do with emotion. Emotion is driving everything.

I haven’t left my house in days. I watch the news channels incessantly. All the news stories are about the election; all the commercials are Viagra and Cialis. Election, erection, election, erection! Either way we’re screwed!

Even though Doctor Strange is an established character, when you’re doing an origin story there’s a lot of room for manoeuvre.

Maybe there are only three kinds of stories: those we live, those we tell, and those that help our souls fly upwards to a greater life.

The radios are going to dictate. That’s another fight. That’s another story there. I wish they just let it be.

First drafts are for learning what your story is about.

Writers who can’t invent stories often substitute style for narrative. They remind me of the painter who couldn’t paint people, so he painted chairs.