It is always our objective to have close ties with the United States. We're at a transitional period of our history and we're on a road to reform..

It's always good to go against your friends, especially when you come out victorious..

About me, nothing worse they will tell you, my love, than what I told you.

A single conversation can change things..

Everything that's old is new, and everything that's new is old..

The climate is changing, and human activity contributes to that in some manner..

The entire function of man is to survive. The outermost limit of endeavour is creative work. Anything less is too close to simple survival until deat….

I tend to eat geographically. When I'm in L.A., I like to eat L.A. food..

Lonesome Dove is a great book that had the rare fortune of being made into a great movie. And now, through Bill Wittliff's photographs, we have a thi….

For one, the Qur'an is considered by Muslims to consist entirely of words spoken by Allah himself..

We really need to get it together here. I think we humans are so brilliant and creative, can't we try something else?.

When I applied to Stanford, I applied for graduate work in the PhD program, not to the creative writing program, mostly because though I had some vag….

Seeks to grow and improve oneself through creative activity, freely expressing one’s exuberant vitality, and through warm, supportive encouragement o….

The more it changes, the more it's the same thing..

Presuasion is what you say immediately before you deliver your message that leverages your success tremendously..

Things are what they are, and whatever will be, will be..

Mozart shows a creative power of such magnitude that one can virtually say that he tossed out of himself one great masterpiece after another..

I work with the dead, but I am working for the living..

The reality of television production now is that all the development money and pilot money now goes to the Internet so they can try to get pilots che….

It was never about having a Mohican haircut or wearing a ripped T-shirt. It was all about destruction, and the creative potential within that..

Pain is a huge gift. It can expand you like nothing else. If you can embrace it and sink into it, you'll get to the point where you can bend and tran….