I hate people doing an emotional striptease. It's never genuine or they wouldn't drag outsiders m.

America was the worst place in the world in which to fail, fall sick, get old or die, because then your problems had crystallised into the unforgivable sin. Failure.

There aren't many idealists in politics.

[On Washington, D.C.:] There was no other city in the world where rumor fed upon itself so virulently. Whispers wiped out careers just as cholera destroyed its human victims.

There is always a moment when you think of death as a way easier than life.

Sleep always eluded the pursuer.

No gimmicks, only agape.

You can be just as faithful to a place or a thing as you can to a person. A place can really make your heart skip a beat, especially if you have to take a plane to get there.

There is no force more liberating than the knowledge that you are fighting for others.

Mathematics is distinguished from all other sciences except only ethics, in standing in no need of ethics.

I will consider my time in the Senate a failure if we don't pass some meaningful legislation to reduce the likelihood that Sandy Hook ever happens again.

The Islamic State fighters in Mosul are dead men walking and I think they increasingly know it.

The attitude, and the mind, is where it all starts.

If an enterprise does not aspire to be the best of its kind, it will attract second-rate employees, and it will be soon forgotten.

No picture, no footage, no story. The people these days require some visual evidence in order to believe what they read.

I am particularly interested in creating a relationship between ideas of reception in conceptual art and theater.