When you start at the beginning of your career [that] was really focused on your own needs and obstacles, and ultimately you realize you're not really doing it for yourself.

No Statue of Liberty ever greeted our arrival in this country...we did not, in fact, come to the United States at all. The United States came to us.

The library (in the migrant community) I grew up in was my only link to the outside world.

I’m with you

The oldest task in human history: to live on a piece of land without spoiling it.

I save the best of myself for novels, and I believe it shows

The pre-human creature from which man evolved was unlike any other living thing in its malicious viciousness toward its own kind. Humanization was not a leap forward but a groping toward survival.

It's possible, although far-fetched, that in the future we could think of cancer being used as a therapy.

What course am I to take?" "Towards danger; but not too rashly, nor too straight.

Any coach certainly wants to have the opportunity to have some input over the personnel that he's coaching.

I would love to do a comedy spoof, like a Spinal Tap kind of thing.

I'm a theorist, not an institutionalist.

Aggression is what I do. I go to war. You don't contest football matches in a reasonable state of mind.