Impotence, fetishism, bisexuality, and bondage are all facts of life, and our fiction should reflect that.

I suppose I should say that I treasure blasphemy, as a faith of the highest order.

I think in a sense seeing how films have changed me and seeing how fiction moves me more than facts in many ways, and I think that I can talk for many people that fiction moves us more than real life, it certainly helps us to set forth on this a journey of a utopia, which can never be achieved.

He played a brilliant game, ... We were able to at least salvage two points for him. Let's face the facts: If he doesn't play like he does for 40 minutes, we're nowhere near that game. We know it. Everybody knows it.

Facts have long since upstaged fiction, and the novelistic imagination now contents itself with documenting incidents it wouldn't have the temerity to invent.

A budget should reflect the values and priorities of our nation and its people.