There was a time in L.A. when I drove to 7-Eleven to go grocery shopping and I locked my keys in my car which wasn't insured. My wallet was in there and I couldn't call AAA because I only had $7 in my bank account. It was one of those moments where I was like 'O.K. I literally have nothing right now.'

The courts cannot garnish a father's salary nor freeze his account nor seize his property on behalf of his children in our society. Apparently this is because a kid is not a car or a couch or a boat.

I think a lot of writers male and female write as if their parents were killed in a car accident when they were 2 and they have no one to hold accountable. And unfortunately I don't have that. I have parents who I care about what they think.

I'm in exactly the same position as everybody else who has a small business. I mean I get loads of money all from different sources. You give it to your accountant. They manage it.

In America we no longer have an institutionalized organized way of calling business to task - of taking them to account for what they've done - and this is especially true in the cultural realm.

There is no business in America that would be prevented from taking results into account when making personnel decisions.

There's no business like show business but there are several businesses like accounting.

I never get the accountants in before I start up a business. It's done on gut feeling especially if I can see that they are taking the mickey out of the consumer.

If you spend your life competing with business men what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!

My philosophy is not a bean-counting accounting 'look at this.' It is a philosophy that smaller government is better government and government that is closer to the people is best of all.

Events will take their course it is no good of being angry at them he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account.

I'm only going to stand before God and give an account for my life not for somebody else's life. If I have a bad attitude then I need to say there's no point in me blaming you for what's wrong in my life.

I was informed yesterday that there's a Twitter account for my laugh. Very hard to get used to things like that. Pretty amazing.

The White House alone cannot hold its opponents accountable.

I am very averse to bringing myself forward in print but as my account will only appear as an appendage to a former production and as it will be confined to such topics as have connection with my authorship alone I can hardly accuse myself of a personal intrusion.

The employee is regarded by the employer merely in the light of his value as an operative. His productive capacity alone is taken into account.

If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K. but it's of no account.