This is what we do. Not so much argue as joust, in jest. We can't stop pushing and pulling the taffy of words and concepts.

The fledgling and ragtag American army turned its state into a semi-plausible advantage, encouraging enlistees to wear their own "hunting shirts" to build on the reputation of frontier marksmen.

The ocean is a central image. It is the symbolism of a great journey.

Logically, when you talkin' about folk music and blues, you find out it's music of just plain people.

It needs to become as easy to get hold of a condom in a poor country as Coca-Cola.

I do what I love to do, what I choose to do.

I can't stand still; I find it very difficult to sit around and do nothing. I've got to have projects on the go because the devil makes work for idle hands. I've got to be going forward all the time.

I don't know that I would need to be famous as a Middle East policy expert to see that unilateral imperialism is bad policy.

When the world moves forward too fast for some people, they try to pull us all back with their fear.

Ninety percent of what we create is not our best work.

Art is jealous, and demands our whole strength ... .