Mosul stands rally at a sort of juncture of sectarian and ethnic differences.

Turkey is saying that it wants to preserve Sunni dominance in Mosul. Obviously, there, the Kurds, the Shia, the Iraqi government have their own agendas.

Everything that happens in Iraq affects countries outside.

There are sort of Kurdish districts there in Mosul, or there used to be, but the Kurds mostly fled or were driven out. The same is true of the Christians.

A defeat for ISIS in Iraq will be defeat for ISIS in Syria.

You know, if you want to meet a lot of Iraqi leaders, the best places are the hotels in Amman or in London. In general the government here is amazingly unpopular.

If the world stands in between a man and the woman he loves, he will set out to conquer it.

Success can also cause misery. The trick is not to be surprised when you discover it doesn't bring you all the happiness and answers you thought it would.

Basic research is when I'm doing what I don't know what I'm doing.

I taught high school students Spanish.

I love therapy! There's nothing like talking to someone who has no emotional tie to your life

Well, I don't really eat cereal that much because on Weight Watchers it's not worth the points.

That's what you join a band for, is to make music. Not to sit around and have five years off. We're not getting any younger.

This is brain surgery. Ski masks on my bullets, let 'em commit brain burglary. Emergency, it's an emergency. Someone in all black left the whole scene burgundy.

Control language and you control thought; control thought and you control action; control action and you control the world.

Wouldn't it be better to have a watertight law designed to catch the guilty, rather than a press release law designed to catch the headlines?