Having seen war, you obviously learned to hate war.

I want to caution that we must not confuse patriotism with blind endorsement of bad policies.

Unless we have a well-educated people, we're vulnerable on our national security.

As a Christian, there is no other part of the New Right ideology that concerns me more than its self-serving misuse of religious faith.

Our problem is not the lack of knowing; it is the lack of doing. Most people know far more than they think they do

Yes, I'm of the old guard, liberal Republican.

There is no such thing as justice, all the best that we can hope for is revenge.

The difference between childhood and adulthood, Vic had come to believe, was the difference between imagination and resignation. You traded one for the other and lost your way.

He'd been ten years old when he'd last begged someone for something, and he'd promised himself he'd never do it again, but this was too important.

For me, personally, the most difficult moments had to do with not just terrorist attacks, but also shootings.

I'm not frightened of a bit of silence.

The writing is just a boring job. It's just a horrible job.

America is very decentralized in how it supports the humanities, unlike European countries where virtually everything stems from the central government.

Australia played some good cricket, but they have forgotten how to win.

What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.

The danger is to stupidly believe that depicting facts gives us much insight. If facts were the only thing that counted, the telephone directory would be the book of books.