Rene Balcer famous quotes

I write about power, that's my real subject - how you get it, what you do with it, how you abuse it. I'm equally wary of liberals and conservatives.
-- Rene Balcer

#Real #Writing #Abuse

Justice is a jagged road.
-- Rene Balcer

#Justice

It's not enough to do good. You have to be seen doing good.
-- Rene Balcer

#Enough #Doing Good

Bad guys do what good guys dream.
-- Rene Balcer

#Dream #Guy #Good Guy

The more I know, the less I sleep.
-- Rene Balcer

#Sleep

Beauty, brains, and a complete psycho. My dream girl.
-- Rene Balcer

#Girl #Dream #Brain

Nobody's reasonable when they're in love. That's the whole point of it.
-- Rene Balcer

In L.A., the only thing within walking distance is your car.
-- Rene Balcer

#Distance #Car #Walking

I'm sympathetic to the decent and hapless footsoldier into whose lap falls the unenviable duty of carrying out fubar policies.
-- Rene Balcer

#Fall #Lap #Duty

Torture injures everyone who comes into contact with it and corrodes the country that abides it.
-- Rene Balcer

#Country #Torture #Contact

It is true that one of the first acts of tyrants is to erase history, to wipe out the recorded memory of a people. With that in mind, it's important to remember that the work that we do as writers, artists and performers will form an essential part of the collective memory that future generations will draw upon. And so we owe it to those future generations to defend that memory and be honest witnesses to our times.
-- Rene Balcer

#Memories #Artist #Tyrants

If you're going to play stickball in Canarsie you better learn Brooklyn rules.
-- Rene Balcer

#Play #Brooklyn