Quotes from Aaron Sorkin

You don't need to wear a patch on your arm to have honor.

The world can move or not by changing some words.

I worship at the altar of obstacle and intention.

If you were the inventors of Facebook, you'd have invented Facebook.

I was sitting on a bench having a bagel, but from where I was both jogging and scullng looks good to me. -- Sam

I'm aware that I have a distinguishable style. It's not something that I set out to do, but this is how I write. I or anyone else would be foolish to try hard to not write like themselves.

They beat up on a weakling, and that's all they did. The rest is smoke-filled, coffee-house crap. They tortured and tormented a weaker kid. And it wasn't just that night. Read the letters, it was eight months. And you know what? I'll bet it was his whole life. They beat him up, and they killed him. And why? Because he couldn't run very fast. I'm off duty now, don't ask me to be pals with these guys.

I desperately need the love of complete strangers. That's one reason I overtip. I love when skycaps, waiters, and valets are happy to see me.

I spend most of my days pacing around, muttering that I have no ideas, feeling like I'm walking a plank.

First scenes are super-important to me. I'll spend months and months pacing and climbing the walls trying to come up with the first scene. I drive for hours on the freeway.

There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do.

Josh: So, Toby, it's election night. What do you say about a country that goes out of its way to protect even those citizens that try to destroy it? Toby: God bless America.

I'm not interested in the difference between good and bad, I'm interested in the differences between good and great.

I can't remember my dreams more than a couple of seconds after I wake up. It's frustrating because sometimes I dream that I'm watching a really good movie.

I'm a playwright. All I care about is the play being good.

Government should be a place where people can come together, and no one gets left behind. No one…gets left behind. An instrument of good.

You're going to fall down, but the world doesn't care how many times you fall down, as long as it's one fewer than the numbers of times you get back up.

Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.

It's populated by people who, by and large, have terrific communication skills. Every day is an extraordinary day. For me, it was just a great area for storytelling.

All my heroes wore coats and ties to work. What happened to men wearing hats? Maybe I should bring back hats.

I'm crazy about 'Breaking Bad,' but I wouldn't know how to write an episode of it.

When a movie is being rolled out, the studio publicists and all our individual publicists get together and come up with bullet points and talking points - 'Make sure you stay away from this,' and 'Don't say that quite that way, because that quote can be taken out of context,' and that kind of thing.

I have a lot of respect for people who are great at ad-libbing, and for writers and directors who are able to create a scene in which that works.

You know, one of the things I like about this world, or at least I like about the way we're presenting this world, is these issues are terribly complicated - not nearly as black and white as we're led to believe.