History is a matter of interpretation, but you have to start with certain facts.

We have seen enough of war to know that it doesn't work to resolve conflicts. It only exacerbates them. It is time we find other solutions and dedicate ourselves to life-not death.

People think in narrow, constrained, constipated ways about the world. They can't imagine that the world could be different. Not like the dreamers who actually see a different world, a better world.

A big part of the story is American imperialism, and the flip side of that is the building up of the national security state here at home.

We're a country that abhors the government. From Reagan on, many people think the government is the enemy in the United States.

People [in US] are starting to rethink this idea of empire, this idea of the United States being this superpower, the hegemon, is not working, and we can't afford it anymore.

China is doing a lot of things right that the United States is doing wrong.

Music is my higher power

No one knows as well as I how much nonsense is printed in books.

When the unexpected meets with the unprepared, over there we find the greatest astonishments!

I am your opus.

Being a good writer doesn’t make you a good reporter, it takes hustle.

They only babble who practise not reflection

Innovation is a discipline not a lottery... It comes from the combination of two elements within my control: hard work and openmindedness.

Gastronomy has to catch up to the evolution in technology.

When Nirvana hit it big, it was overwhelming because we were part of the counterculture. Nirvana didn't go to the mainstream - the mainstream came to Nirvana.

The body is like an elaborate metaphor. One may be able to taste and not swallow, like the anorexic, or to swallow and not integrate, like the bulimic or obese.