The nice thing about growing up in that kind of environment is you were exposed to so much -- music, plays, art exhibits, rock concerts.

Humor has bailed me out of more tight situations than I can think of. If you go with your instincts and keep your humor, creativity follows. With luck, success comes, too.

Nature, as we say, does nothing without some purpose; and for thepurpose of making mana political animal she has endowed him alone among the animals with the power of reasoned speech.

I don't think of myself as giving interviews. I just have conversations. That gets me in trouble.

I don't think that I would ever, while writing, think to myself, "I need a little more psychological realism."

Everybody wants my support. You know why? Cause I had more than 14 million people that voted for me. And nobody gives us credit.

One is actually the democracy here, you know, people are, people assume that this election means that there is democracy in Pakistan. There is no democracy.

If we think systematically, we will stop asking, How much is nature worth? We will know that we are a piece of nature ourselves.

College football is the only game in the country, of any kind, that the college game is longer than the pro game.

I remember going to see Amiri Baraka. It wasn't actually too long before he died. He said, "You've got to write to change the world!" I was like, "Not me, no, no, no, no."