I think war should be illegal.

Fences and walls can be effective and even soothing, at least for those who build them.

Were all bloggers and punks and rebels with cameras. There is absolutely no respect for career journalists anymore.

I dont look for good-news stories or bad-news stories.

A lot of Iran's empowerment is a result of the war in Iraq.

Putting a bomb in a dumpster or putting it with a timer by a race, it is not the kind of - similar to the attacks that we've seen where people open fire with assault rifles and things like that.

Every child is taught if you try to please everyone, you end up upsetting everyone.

Trouble seemed to follow me around. The late Tim Russert, my friend and the esteemed moderator of NBC’s Meet the Press, once joked, “Richard, just don’t come to Washington.

I could scarcely believe that my new home was engulfed by war before I even had time to find an apartment. It seemed that war followed me everywhere I went.

Foreigners who speak Arabic in the Middle East are often assumed to be working for the C.I.A. or Israel's intelligence agency, the Mossad.

Kidnapping is always a threat in this life of reporting on men hurting one another because of religion and politics.

Don't you just love poetry that gives you a crinkly feeling up and down your back?

Celebrating love, wherever it is found" (Trevor Dennis). I'm using this sermon title as the essence of my novel

... in art nothing is more secondary than the author's intentions.

A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.

I have seen men march to the wars, and then I have watched their homeward tread, and they brought back bodies of living men, But their eyes were cold and dead.

Most scripts that get written in Hollywood dont go anywhere.

I never thought of myself in comedy at all... I loved going to the theatre and seeing people wearing beautiful clothes come down the staircase and start to dance.

The Fates are here because of supernal anger, celestial imbalance, and arrogance of men and gods that must be curbed.

I think all decision making is very instinctive, in the end.

We're all intrigued, in our civilized world that we live in, and curious about how we would get on, on an undiscovered island that is untouched by man.