I just don't believe that you have to come in and insult people when you want to change things.

My own reaction from a distance is that Pol Pot's demise as the leader of the Khmer Rouge was inevitable, and that his own paranoia did him in as much as anything else.

We Americans are the ultimate innocents. We are forever desperate to believe that this time the government is telling us the truth.

Pol Pot carried out through the years enormous purges against his own followers because of his paranoia.

The mainstream press and television do a very soft job of covering the press, either as corporate entities or as news organizations.

Contradictory to my religion, I think, is journalism.

The Voice has always been an alternative paper. They have always understood that that was part of their role.

I don't judge myself by what someone says.

This isn't a little debate society. That's high school stuff.

People in New York pay attention to national issues - a huge percentage of people.

It's very easy to say that something is a shadow of itself, and it may be true in some senses.

Bitterness and sweetness, are both fruits of egoism. Doing egosim of good deeds brings sweetness. Doing egosim of bad deeds brings bitterness.

Therapy isn't Radio.We don't need to constantly fill the air with sounds. Sometimes, when its quite, surprising things happen.

There is no middle ground in Hollywood you're a failure or you're a success. That mentality is wild.

I'm still shocked every time I see snow. The first bit of snow each year... I stay up and I watch it. And then I go out and pick it up and eat it and move around in it.

But an infinity of passions can be contained in a minute, like a crowd in a tiny space.

There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts. The fragility and delicacy of the former are of the same nature as the brutal insensitivity of the latter.

I didn't leave the Beatles. The Beatles have left the Beatles, but no one wants to be the one to say the party's over.

I'm always moving forward creatively and don't like stalling, trying to find the perfect snare drum sound.

Willpower is a muscle that can be strengthened.

I will make you love physics and your life will never be the same.