For me, it's that I contributed, ... That I'm on this planet doing some good and making people happy. That's to me the most important thing, that my hour of television is positive and upbeat and an antidote for all the negative stuff going on in life.
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.