There's no way for me to know, but my best guess, as it must be for everyone, is that other people are pretty much like me.

If a liberal political philosophy stands for anything, and I am no longer sure it does, then it must mean that we are committed to the leveling of the playing field for everyone.

There's a flipside to this; if you as an individual have the right to live on your own terms, you must have the right to both succeed and fail on them.

An attempt to write nothing but characterization will soon bog down; I for one don't want to have somebody tell me about someone else.

I know what I like in other actors: truth. That's the best. It makes you say, 'OK, I'll go with you on this.'

You can have data without information, but you cannot have information without data.