WHEN we don't get the results we want in our military endeavors, we don't blame the soldiers.

We are unusual and tragic and alive.

I met a lot of great people in Saudi Arabia and I'd like to see them again. And I'd love to spend more time in the desert and in the mountains. I felt really at home there.

Dignity is an affectation, cute but eccentric, like learning French or collecting scarves.

We must do extraordinary things. We have to. It would be absurd not to.

Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.

Better to be at the bottom of a ladder you want to climb than in the middle of some ladder you don’t, right?

Here I am Rock You Like a Hurricane.

Again the greatest use of a human was to be useful. Not to consume, not to watch, but to do something for someone else that improved their life, even for a few minutes.

But everyone disappears, no matter who loves them.

Pain comes at me and I take it, chew it for a few minutes, and spit it back out. It's just not my thing anymore.

The smartest thing I ever said was "Help Me!"

Voter fraud does just barely exist, while racism, according to the Supreme Court, is a thing of the past.

Being a winner is never an accident; winning comes about by design, determination and positive action.

It is more rational to suspect knavery and folly than to discount, at a stroke, everything that past experience has taught me about the way things actually work

So is it always nationalist to resist US globalization? The US thinks it is, and wants you to agree; and, moreover, to consider US interests as being universal ones.

You really are a badass, edgy guy who tells it like it is...about couscous.

Luck is the attentive photographer's best teacher.

People don't like the idea of thinking long term. Many are desperately seeking short term answers because they have money problems to be solved today.

I don't really think anything Microsoft does puts pressure on Apple.

The bitter clamor of two eager tongues.