A life like Nixon's is filled with shame and filled with glory. He loved to quote Teddy Roosevelt: "He was a man; sometimes right, sometimes wrong, b….

I went to Vietnam, and I was there for a long time. [Using marijuana] made the difference between staying human or, as Michael Douglas said, becoming….

What I've experienced, I'm trying to put in a narrative form, I suppose, to say that it does make sense in this way..

Anyone can relate to suffering in this world..

Every day that you get up, it's some kind of victory if you're making a good product, or working on a project that can only help mankind..

I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious..

What scares me most about the media is that so many of them don't realize that by presenting and highlighting certain issues, opinions, and perspecti….

Venezuela is a democratically elected government. These people who keep protesting are sore losers..

Сyber-warfare is obviously the future. It's a real concern, but we lie so much about what we do that it's hard to know what's going on unless you rea….

Television has usurped everybody from film. And so have commercials, by the way..

Independence is a state of mind. Independence is spirit without category..

I couldn't despise a man more than George W. Bush..

I've met people who will go to a movie that I can't stand and they say that they saw that movie ten times. There's something they like and identified….

I study history in order to give an interpretation..

People are still living in the moment, and they feel the passion of now..

I gave up on America. I read the Times just to find out what they're thinking. I read blogs. I get most of my best information from people who are th….

I have the right to interpretation as a dramatist. I research. It's my responsibility to find the research. It's my responsibility to digest it and d….

We all have idealism. We think we're healthy and then, all of a sudden, one day, you have cancer. The truth has a mind of its own..

People will go to clean theaters; they don't like to go to dirty theaters..

[Fidel Castro] has a very good [human rights] record..

There is a Greco-Buddhist school of architecture and sculpture that you find everywhere in the world. It's fascinating, because Alexander died in 323….