Fear trumps empathy.

Too many are sorry where they should be assertive, and nearly moved to aggressive radical action, where they should be apologizing to themselves first, and then the world at large.

When the Lakota chief Red Cloud finally quit fighting the intruders, he reportedly told a white delegation, "We didn't need all this land, and neither did you.

Don't you know there ain't no devil, it's just god when he's drunk.

The message of great art is to disturb.

...most of the time we were alone and mixing up our souls ever more and ever more till it would be terribly hard to say good-by.

A born poet knows in his cradle that a poetic life is the only life worth living.

Actually, they should just roll it all back get rid of gambling...It destabilizes the U.S. economy

There has not yet been a major ground offensive battle... There are, we know, negotiations going on between the opposition forces and the Taliban leadership for surrender.

I'd make a better U.S. president than George W. Bush. Bush is an idiot. I'm a better public speaker than him. It makes you wonder about the voters.

There are, of course, many, many, many good cinematographers and unfortunately they don't work as much as many of those people who do those crazy, stupid movies.