My goal in Baghdad was to facilitate a debate here in the United States on America's policy toward Iraq, a debate that's been sadly lacking.

I love my country more than anything. I spent 12 years in the United States Marine Corps. I know what it means to defend this country.

I can train a monkey to wave an American flag. That does not make the monkey patriotic.

That we have collectively failed to halt and repudiate the war in Iraq makes us even worse than the Germans.

We say that we care about the war, but we don't even really know what we're fighting for.

One, if you attack my integrity, I will defend myself. If you attack my patriotism, I will defend myself. If you come after my family, I will counter-attack viciously, I will destroy you.

I'm someone who believes the truth needs to be heard. And if I'm empowered with the truth, I'm not going to shut up.

War is not some sort of Nintendo video game.

If people don't like the history, I'm sorry.

Iraq has not been disarmed 100 percent [but] in terms of what they [Iraqis] have accomplished there are no meaningful weapons or weapons production capability in Iraq today.

The only way an Iraqi biological agent would kill you is if it landed on your head.

Aim for the moon, but in your way there don't forget to dance with the stars and shine as bright as the sun.

Talent is its own expectation, Jim: you either live up to it or it waves a hankie, receding forever.

My dad wanted to name me after Rainier Maria Rilke, the poet.

You can win the rat race but you're still a rat.

I have specific playlists for different books and characters. So, I need to have those with me. It helps me get into the mindset of the book.

Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life.

You cannot imagine how great it is to step out on the stage with thousands of screaming fans loving you.

I asked the Zebra, are you black with white stripes? Or white with black stripes? And the zebra asked me, Are you good with bad habits? Or are you bad with good habits?

Forming of a web of information nodes rather than a hierarchical tree or an ordered list is the basic concept behind HyperText.

I'm not just interested in the pictorial aspects of the landscape - see a pretty place and try to paint it - but in some way to manage it, manipulate it, or see what I can turn it into.