Military strikes on Afghanistan will not prevent something this terrible from happening again, for the simple reason that bombs will not deter people who are unafraid of death and desire martyrdom.

In my experience, being busy and working hard is the key to sanity/happiness.

If you are weak, anyone can come and kick you

Peter Mandelson is one of the most odious, self-satisfied, misogynistic men I have ever met. Compellingly, fascinatingly horrible.

The best justification governments can find to shut down information is that lives are at risk. In fact, lives have been at risk as a result of the silences and lies revealed in these leaks.

I think the world of politics is pretty sleazy.

Marriage Asian-style is practical, contractual and, to the western mind, deeply unromantic.

I don't eat friggin' lobster or anything like that. Because they're alive when you kill it.

I felt sad because everyday I had to wake up early to practice before going to school. After school I had to go back to tennis again, and then after tennis I had homework. I didn't have time to play.

We're nature. Our minds are nature. Our desire to make poetry is nature.

But I do know this: that the two and a half years that I've been at HUD, I am absolutely convinced that some of the best workers in the world are in Federal Government.

For many of us the great danger is not that we will renounce our faith. It is that we will become so distracted and rushed and preoccupied that we will settle for a mediocre version of it.

Society does not love its unmaskers.

All our experiences have led us to believe certain things about ourselves. Whether these beliefs are true or not really doesn't matter because if we accept them as true, then they are true for us.

Revolutionaries don't get job security.

I'm the kind of person who embarks on an endless leapfrog down the great moral issues. I put a position, rebut it, refute the rebuttal and rebut the refutation. Endlessly.

I love action-adventure-type films - mythical adventures like 'Lord of the Rings' or superhero films like 'Batman.'