The military has a very prickly relationship with the press.

Brotherhood means laying down your life for somebody, really willing to sacrifice yourself for somebody else.

I'm very open to any visual conceits and any possibilities at my disposal to be better explain to people the ideas I'm exploring.

Liberia is not at the center of a massive geopolitical game. Afghanistan is and has always been. The history is dramatic, the politics are dramatic, the landscape is incredibly dramatic.

It's funny, the old media idea is very segmented, like "this is my territory and this is yours." But media is changing. You're at a point now where people can start to move into different forms.

The best way to get Americans to focus on what's happening in Afghanistan is by using the example of their own.

Living life ONCE is enough...if you live life RIGHT.

Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?

If my father had hugged me even once, I'd be an accountant right now.

Language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.

Try out your ideas by visualizing them in action.

I'd really like to write a book about Timothy McVeigh, but it would only work if he cooperated.

Christianity is a marketable product. It has very little to do with Jesus Christ. I'm sure it has nothing to do with Jesus Christ at all - what the experience was like to be around the guy.

The real heroes were my good buddies who died during the battles.

Gravity is the insidious enemy of the animate.

Passion in a dromedary doesn't go so deep; a camel when it's mating never sobs itself to sleep.