The internet is not something you just dump something on. It's not a truck. It's a series of tubes.

I do have concerns about the current efforts to restructure our nation's intelligence community.

I would urge that we all use a little bit of caution in dealing with an issue that is so vital to our national security.

The agency that is so strict on the way Americans keep their books cannot even pass a financial audit.

I am not opposed to intelligence reform on its face, but any changes should reflect the current context.

People who vote against this today are voting against me and I will not forget.

The Internet...is a series of tubes.

Whatever her dream was, it rested somewhere in the most vague of directions.

To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.

Maybe I don't know yet how to be happy and play well at the same time.

Let's raise our glass and let the hammer fly, yeah, this is the long good-bye.

Part of this new world of completely improvisational terrorism is that there were codes of war that disintegrated in the face of terrorism.

For graduate school I ended up going to the University of Iowa, which is, of course, the best graduate writing program in the country.

I have graduate students who have developed this ability to love and want to perfect it. Those are the students I spend a lot of time with because at this time they need that.

Regrets? I think everyone has regrets, and people who say they haven't are either liars or narcissists

Atheists have an excellent longevity record because we have no place to go after we die, so we take good care of ourselves and our world while we are here.

I'm just trying to tell a good story and make thought-provoking, entertaining films. I just try and draw upon the great culture we have as a people, from music, novels, the streets.