360 Quotes by David Mamet

You want to get Capone? Here's how you get him: he pulls a knife, you pull a gun, he sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. It's the Chicago way and that's how you get Capone.

I took the liberal view for many decades, but I believe I have changed my mind.

Storytelling is like sex. We all do it naturally. Some of us are better at it than others.

For it is written that just as it is forbidden to partake of the forbidden, it is forbidden not to partake of the permitted.

I'm not the guy to ask about politics. I'm a gag writer.

In practice we, in the world, must do business with each other.

If You can't tell it to me in one sentence, they can't put it in TV Guide.

It's hard for a Jew of my generation, an American Jew, who is philo-Zionistic, not to romanticize Israel.

The first amendment ensures not that speech will be fair, but that it will be free. It cannot be both.