The more dynamic the capitalistic expansion, the greater the disparity. It is from the disparity that we are going to get all the political upheaval for the next few years.

Travel is like a good challenging book: It demands presentness-the ability to live completely in the moment.

What happened on September 11th is at least, theoretically, small stuff compared to what can happen.

If you look at the history of the U.S., we were an empire long before we were a nation.

It is a cliche these days to observe that the United States now possesses a global empire - different from Britain's and Rome's but an empire nonetheless.

Prostitution, black marketeering, and informing on ones neighbors and friends all had such a deep-rooted tradition in Romania that there was a charming naturalness and innocence about it.

It is development, not poverty, that causes upheaval and terrorism.

Wherever you have weakening states and turmoil, you will have a fertile petri dish for terrorism.

It is time to understand the environment for what it is: the national security issue of the early twenty-first century.

What does the earth look like in the places where people commit atrocities? Is there a bad smell, a genius loci, something about the landscape that might incriminate?

The first thing to recognize not just about Afghanistan but about any poor undeveloped country is that as big as it looks on the map, it's much bigger when you're there.

In truth, Liesel was a prisoner too, just held by different kinds of bonds.

The truth can't hurt you, it's just like the dark. It scares you witless, but in time you see things clear and stark.

Cate's absolutely spellbinding. She was like that just eating a sandwich. I knew at the time I was privileged, but since she's become God's gift to actresses I realise exactly how lucky I was.

A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King.

Ambition is vital, but dangerous: it is a keen motive and a driving force, but over what edge can it drive the artist?

We must attend to what our inner guidance is nudging us toward.

I like people to come back and tell me what I did wrong. That's the kindest thing you can do.

The more coward you are, the bigger your castle is!

There were the phone calls and Elvis had asked me to visit him in Los Angeles. This was in 1962.

Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.