Why would you go anyplace without your iPad? This is the greatest invention. When it gets a little more power, my God. It's like my office.

When we went to war at the Falklands, Buck Kernan had to shake each man's hand as we boarded a boat for war.

Pro Publica distorts the relationship between organizations and their consultants.

As a viewer I came of age during a time when cast members were prone to fistfights. So I may be carrying a little of that kind of image in my head.

For each show, we do maybe 15 versions before it goes on air. So I know every show microscopically.

The Clash, in particular, transcends any category.

When you do something bad and you know you can do it, only you know you can do it. And do it while it's hot, man.

My dad is a little Scottish guy with tattoos all over his arms.

In the British military system, there is a very strict chain of command. Americans just want to win, and the correct strategy may be to speak directly to the men.

I was a section commander in the parachute regiment [in the British army].

I'm consciously working very hard at not eating.

I work out every day, and I eat 1, 200 calories. Here's the truth - like I've said to everybody, 'Every diet works if you follow the diet.'

The cross was two pieces of dead wood; and a helpless, unresisting Man was nailed to it; yet it was mightier than the world, and triumphed, and will ever triumph over it.

When you can't bear something but it goes on anyway, the person who survives isn't you anymore; you've changed and become someone else, a new person, the one who did bear it after all.

Grizzly bears eat people without the benefit of music.

I was scared I was going to have some weird shape to my head and I was pleased that I didn't.

What poetry can, must, and will always do for us: it complicates us, it doesn’t ‘soothe.’

There is ever a slight suspicion of the burlesque about earnest good men.

I sat up, sliding them off, and the quiet around me did not, for once, seem empty and vast. Instead, for the first time in a while, it felt like it already was full.

Love and build, love and work, love and fight. Always love first. Anything placed before love will fail.

England, bound in with the triumphant sea, Whose rocky shore beats back the envious siege Of watery Neptune.