Freedom has become a commodity whose availability, paradoxically, keeps society in check. The threat of its loss seems to enable us to tolerate its imposition.

Travel is no more than a relatively healthy form of narcotic, after all.

Love doesn't always show us the sad and the sorrowful part of it, it only shows us the happy circle a gain and a gain.

The two events were probably unrelated, but both jolted Dave the way a sudden air pocket reminds nervous passengers that they’re soaring above the clouds in a pressurized metal tube.

He had to fight. That's all he had. Not memories, not experiences, not skills. He had a will. And his will was to fight until he couldn't fight anymore.

A totally blind process can by definition lead to anything; it can even lead to vision itself.

There's no doubt that usually a president's public image is enhanced by going to war. That never did appeal to me.

If you want your 401k to come back, recriminalize gambling

Things were happening around us, but nothing was happening between us.

Are there really good wars and bad wars? We thought so during World War II, and in retrospect, we were right. But in Vietnam, and Iraq we were wrong.

One of the things I enjoy is the challenge of Mother Nature.

Art is drama. Any relationship to art is also a relationship to death.