What happened on September 11th is at least, theoretically, small stuff compared to what can happen.

Travel is like a good challenging book: It demands presentness-the ability to live completely in the moment.

If you look at the history of the U.S., we were an empire long before we were a nation.

It is a cliche these days to observe that the United States now possesses a global empire - different from Britain's and Rome's but an empire nonetheless.

The more dynamic the capitalistic expansion, the greater the disparity. It is from the disparity that we are going to get all the political upheaval for the next few years.

Prostitution, black marketeering, and informing on ones neighbors and friends all had such a deep-rooted tradition in Romania that there was a charming naturalness and innocence about it.

It is development, not poverty, that causes upheaval and terrorism.

Wherever you have weakening states and turmoil, you will have a fertile petri dish for terrorism.

It is time to understand the environment for what it is: the national security issue of the early twenty-first century.

What does the earth look like in the places where people commit atrocities? Is there a bad smell, a genius loci, something about the landscape that might incriminate?

The first thing to recognize not just about Afghanistan but about any poor undeveloped country is that as big as it looks on the map, it's much bigger when you're there.

Anger dulls the sharpness of mind, hardens the softness of feelings, and replaces the sweetness of the world with bitterness.

Avoid those who seek friends in order to maintain a certain social status or to open doors they would not otherwise be able to approach.

Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.

I fall in love every day. Not with people but with situations.

I want to make this perfectly clear: you can be sure that I will never be a yes-man except to my own conscience.

Governments should not be able to bulldoze a person's home or business to benefit other individuals.

We're not just horror fans. We're film fans. I love action films. I want to do action films. I want to do romantic comedies. I love all this stuff. So, if I find the good material, I'll do it.

I can show you that the art of calculation has to do with odd and even numbers in their numerical relations to themselves and to each other.

Have you ever heard of the expression, ladies first" "Yes" "Well, it's truer in bed than it is anywhere else.

Books are not men and yet they are alive.