It's much less romantic in that you have to go to www.cia.gov and click "Apply Now." For me it was much more clandestine.

The truth of the matter is, we can certainly fight against terrorism and fight terrorist groups around the world without having to give up our own civil liberties. They're not mutually exclusive.

I can remember only a small handful of instances in which I talked about politics with my parents. I remember my parents telling me that Daniel Ellsberg was a hero when I was six years old.

Without the hard we stay too soft, and heaven is reduced to myths like life. Theology aside, it’s plain to see that God forbids we get too comfortable.

When you make limits to yourself, you're not yourself anymore.

Your wit makes others witty.

We have buried so much of the delicate magic of life.

Under the current high energy / high entropy regime, sustainable development is a joke.

[A photograph] is a part of the evidence. I'm not saying it's the truth - it's part of the evidence.

There's always an adjective before my name, and it's never a nice one.

Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base-in both senses-greed.

I have to go back to my younger days, when I just adored Hollywood musicals.

I like to know where I am. I don't like the kind of cutting where you don't know where you are.