Quotes by : David Mamet

There's nothing in the world more silent than the telephone the morning after everybody pans your play.....

The basis of drama is ... is the struggle of the hero towards a specific goal at the end of which he....

Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance.

Every reiteration of the idea that _nothing matters_ debases the human spirit.Every reiteration of the....

One person may need (or want) more leisure, another more work; one more adventure, another more security,....

I understand that computers, which I once believed to be but a hermaphrodite typewriter-cum-filing cabinet,....

My dad was an immigrant kid and a Democrat and a Jew, and we didn't know any Republicans in our group.....

The leaf of the camomile, parboiled in water, conduces to calm. And yet I do not worship it.

...My dad, may he rest in peace, taught me many wonderful things. And one of the things he taught me....

When the three branches of government have failed to represent the citizenry and the mass of the media....