I'm just a mule with blinders on, I can't help myself.

Do what you love. It’s going to lead to where you want to go.

Almost all Iraqis with any previous experience in the intelligence business are Sunni Arab, increasing the risk of penetration of the new intelligence apparatus by the insurgency.

But I think frustration is hilarious. One of my missions is to bring humor into fine art. It's sacred.

I throw dignity out the window, and just become a creature of the moment on the stage. I act like I'd never act in real life.

If they make the deadline because the Shiites and Kurds essentially rammed a draft through over Sunni Arab objections, there will be hell to pay.

I hate people who act too cool for school. Just own up to it, dude.

The written word is the only anchor we have in life. How extraordinary would it be if we had even three or four paragraphs written honestly about their lives by our ancestors?

It's about communication, no matter how impossibly hard your art is to understand and how much of an ivory tower or high horse you get on, it's still basically communication or why are you doing it?

The only tip I have for an artist is perseverance... Never give up.

It would be really embarrassing to introduce yourself as somebody who makes beauty.

Why don't you think of [God] as the one who is coming, who has been approaching from all eternity... the ultimate fruit of a tree whose leaves we are.

Evil is of the devil.

I had always felt life first as a story: and if there is a story there is a story-teller

You only get one chance at your life so why not jump cars?

This is a core principle of my presidency - if you threaten America, you will find no safe haven.

We are all self-made men and women, but only the successful take credit for it.

What I want is to be willing to fail rather than stagnate.

When you're in love, love makes you do crazy things, and can take you down a whirlwind of a road.

The only lost cause is one we give up on before we enter the struggle.

Only love matters in the bits and pieces of a person's life.