"Golf isn't like other sports where you can take a player out if he's having a bad day. You have to play the whole game."

“I've never been to college, and I think about that. But I kept putting it off, and I am also thinking about having a child, and that's really important. Also, I want to do a lot of traveling and surfing - two of my hobbies.”

“My poems are political in the deeper sense of the word. Political means to live in your time, to be a man of your time.”

“Writing a story starts out as a puzzle in your mind, of "What is it I'm fantasizing about right now that makes me think this is going to be worth years of work?" And you just keep pushing and trying to figure it out, and once you've hit on these resonances... Then as a screenwriter, it can be dangerous if you get too hooked on just finding things that resonate with each other, because then you risk getting into stuff that's too neat, and becomes stifled as storytelling. But you do feel like you're on the right track when you start to have a sense of what goes with what.”

Source : Source: film.avclub.com

“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”

“The world is safer without Saddam [Hussein]. Certainly the people of Iraq are better without Saddam.”

“I did a film called 'Fort McCoy,' based on a true story of one of the few internment camps during WWII that was actually in the United States.”

“I think the disarmament of Iraq is inevitable.”

“Burn all the statutes and their shelves: They stir us up against our kind; And worse, against ourselves.”