If I hear an interesting turn of phrase on TV, I'll repeat it back - I just like to roll it around on my tongue. The same goes for dialog: I'll either speak it aloud or whisper it. I definitely sit in front of my computer and mutter. People have mentioned it.

If you're truly depicting human behavior in an honest way, it is a lot of miscommunication, non-communication, paranoia, passive aggressiveness. People don't finish sentences. They don't say what they mean. They lie to each other. They take credit for things that are actually other people's ideas.

First and foremost, you want to be truthful as a storyteller.

Any distraction tends to get in the way of being an effective gangster.

I love Miami; I miss it so much. I miss the beach, the peace it brings you. I love the sound and smell of the sea.

If South Korea is going to survive, and keep the peace on the peninsula, its citizens need to start conveying support for their state.

Don't kid yourself. President Obama's decision to withdraw 33,000 troops from Afghanistan before he stands for reelection is not driven by the United States' 'position of strength' in the war zone as much as it is by grim economic and political realities at home.

If the inner world is inundated with peace, then the nightmare of world war cannot even come into being.