One, I push my deadlines closer than anybody else, or let's say it this way: I'm really late.

We have, essentially, a worthless democracy.

You know, every time a summer movie comes out, people think they're gonna get rich off of the merchandise.

When the news wants to tell you something is important, they put dramatic theme music behind it. They scare you into watching the story.

I want the news delivered unbiased. I thought that was the whole point with journalism.

I'm not a Democrat.

One, I push my deadlines closer than anybody else, or let's say it this way: I'm really late.

You know, Democratic and Republican administrations alike have supported individuals and regimes that have slaughtered millions across the globe. And they need to be held accountable for that.

We have to confront the very scary fact that the president is a moron. He's really dumb.

There's some new evidence that has just come out about the CIA planning terrorist attacks on U.S. soil in the '60s and how they were going to set up Castro for it in order to get America behind a war in Cuba.

The American people have no control over what the military does. We have no say in American foreign policy.

And I'm not so in love with making people mad that I want to live my life around it.

Anyone with a gun can go out and commit an act of terrorism, even without a political affiliation.

I don't want the news to be patriotic. I don't want to see flags on the lapels of the anchors. I don't want any of that.

I cannot be made into the commentator for the unspoken black masses.

Once you give up rights, they're not going to give them back.

I may be wrong in that, but not I think in putting the questions. In our modern democracy the government needs not a unanimous but a general support for war before it orders our forces to fight.

The problem is you cannot have free global trade with highly restrictive, regulated domestic markets.

I do think of myself very strongly as a New Zealander, but when I moved out to the States, I was aware that I didn't want to just live in a satellite community of only other New Zealanders.

I sometimes feel like it's difficult for people to relate to me, until they spend, like, a day with me, and until they walk around with me in public.

I think the most effective way to run a kitchen is to teach, not to just yell.

Will this matter in 10 years?

I'm heavier, but with muscle rather than flab. It's a massive difference. It means I don't get as tired sometimes and it means that I'm hitting the ball a lot farther, about 15 yards more with my driver.

I met Patti LuPone and Elaine Paige in a party. I didn't speak too much with Patti, but she was lovely with me.

There is an internal landscape a geography of the soul we search for its outlines in our lives. Those who are lucky enough to find it ease like water over a stone onto its fluid contours and are home.

I come from a Christian faith. I am not going to give you insight into my particular beliefs.

A magazine is simply a device to induce people to read advertising.

Fifty percent of our country that we own, have all legal jurisdiction, have all rights to do whatever we want, lies beneath the sea and we have better maps of Mars than that 50 percent.

Watching you walk out of my life does not make me bitter or cynical about love. But rather makes me realize that if I wanted so much to be with the wrong person how beautiful it will be when the right person comes along.

I am looked upon with suspicion. I am on the "other side."

I went to a segregated school; I was born a Negro, not a black man.

I want to be remembered as a storyteller.

It's quite difficult to write about female friendship without it seeming to be a very niche subject. It's a difficult balance.

Anyone can ride with us, you don't have to be a member. You don't have to ride a motorcycle; you can drive a car and help us carry our equipment.

An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.

Equilibrium is the profoundest tendency of all human activity.

Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence. Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.

I'm never going to be comfortable being squished into a box, and that's why it's been weird in Hollywood, they don't know what to do with me, because I can play the game up to a point, but then I can't at all.

It took me a long time to learn how to write a good song.

Over the years, God and St. Therese have kept me going no matter how bad things were.