We civilians defend our own right to free speech. The military in Iraq does not defend our right to free speech.

When Pakistani Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar was asked why there was so much animosity in her country towards the United States, she gave a one-word answer: “drones.”

I wonder if you are ashamed of calling a Democratically elected government a fascist government.

I think that you hear more opposition to the government in Venezuela than you would here in the United States. That's in the TV, in the radio and in the print media.

Israel is run by war criminals...

If it weren't for people like the people in Berkeley, standing up for what they believe, we'd be living under Hitler.

John Brennan has been the mastermind of the drone program. He's the one who'd convene the terror Tuesday meetings at the White House.

Hip to the fact that well-behaved women rarely make history, Diane [Wilson] has already inspired a new movement of totally uncontrollable, irresistible and unreasonable women!

I wouldn't characterize anybody who fought in Vietnam as a war hero. In 23 bombing sorties, there must have been civilians that were killed and there's no heroism to that.

It's easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die.

Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none

Human life is an incongruous combination of tragedy and comedy.

Does it kill them? I don't want to be killing Americans whatsoever, Jeffrey.

I see the shape of the poem before I start writing, and the writing is just the process of arriving at the shape.

Military simulation is an important way of training people for an emergency

Often times it's really hard for me to articulate why I connect to something.

My favorite part of any project is the preparation. It's where you get to meet the people, the experts.

There is nothing worth thinking but it has been thought before; we must only try to think it again.

Relationship gurus always said that an attraction based on friendship and mutual respect was far more likely to stay the course - and the bastards were right.