He sounds like a good American. He sounds like me, he's from New York, but he sounds like an Iowan.
New York is really the cheapest ad market. When I go on TV, I'm hitting a country. The market is as big as some countries, you know.
Cigarette smoking is associated with reduced bone mineral density and increased fracture risk.
My advice for writers is to get a good day job. It takes the pressure off writing if you have a job that pays the bills.
I am very much afraid of definitions, and yet one is almost forced to make them. One must take care, too, not to be inhibited by them.
Before the war, and especially before the boer war, it was summer all the year round.
The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan.
No matter where you go or what you do, you live your entire life within the confines of your head.
I opted for a freelance writing career. I was lucky enough to have the means to do it.
Americans want to reduce our dependence on oil. And Americans really don't wanna be contributing global warming if they can help it.
Every once in awhile, the world will push up an Elvis Presley or a Beatles. But that's really outside the realm of show business.
When you don't know what the band looks like, it puts the emphasis on thinking and taking the music and message more seriously.
If you're going to believe in a God, then you also have to equally believe that there's a flip side to this.
If I was doing a musical, I would never listen to the cast album, because I wanted to do my version of something.
The wonderful thing about being an American writer is you've got this vastness to draw from.