The consumer is in pretty good shape. The American consumer hangs in through thick and thin, and now there are read more

The consumer is in pretty good shape. The American consumer hangs in through thick and thin, and now there are lots of positives.

Business is very good right now.

Business is very good right now.

I think people are willing to spend more to have a premium experience so they're buying less but they're buying read more

I think people are willing to spend more to have a premium experience so they're buying less but they're buying higher quality.

A single prop that does not look real to an audience can louse you up. The same is true of read more

A single prop that does not look real to an audience can louse you up. The same is true of the smallest flaw in setting up the motivation in a story line.

We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the time that I lived there so successfully disguised read more

We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the time that I lived there so successfully disguised to myself as a child.

It was a good effort by everyone. We're not the best team in the league, obviously, but we hung pretty read more

It was a good effort by everyone. We're not the best team in the league, obviously, but we hung pretty good. They just hung longer.

They were beating us to the ball on the floor. We had one rebound in the first quarter, four by read more

They were beating us to the ball on the floor. We had one rebound in the first quarter, four by halftime and 12 turnovers (by halftime). You can't win ballgames like that. They deserved to win.

Only the winners decide what were war crimes.

Only the winners decide what were war crimes.

Written laws are like spider's webs; they will catch, it is true, the weak and the poor, but would be read more

Written laws are like spider's webs; they will catch, it is true, the weak and the poor, but would be torn in pieces by the rich and powerful.