The one-legged never stumble..

On the basis of the familiar experience that that which is learned with difficulty is better retained, it would have been safe to prophesy such an ef….

Where's the rest of me?.

The brutality of the pace. This was my third presidential campaign and it was a thousand times faster paced than my first one in 2004. The news cycle….

There are worse things than being constantly hired to do anything..

Money out of nothing is money that is eventually worth nothing..

I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats..

My general approach to making art making hasn't changed much since I was 20, poor, and writing songs in my bedroom wanting to get my art out of my bo….

No faith is our own that we have not arduously won..

Yet it ought to be clear that a minimum wage law is, at best, a limited weapon for combatting the evil of low wages, and that the possible good to be….

I take things too seriously..

Music in a movie might tell you about longing. It might tell you about fear. It might tell you any number of things, but it tells you something diffe….

Wanderlust is incurable..

Democracy is nothing but the Tyranny of Majorities, the most abominable tyranny of all, for it is not based on the authority of a religion, not upon ….

I will no longer take anyone's word for my experience..

I had this whole issue of doing a crime film in the 2010s. The genre's been mined very, very heavily. Post-Scorsese, post-Tarantino, post-Guy Ritchie….

Sports (and the often barely withheld violence around them) have become one of the few modern ways to connect with strangers. They give an amazing nu….

Everything since Homer has improved, except poetry..

How can I dispose of myself with it?.

The Athenians regularly maintained a number of degraded and useless beings at the public expense; and when any calamity, such as plague, drought, or ….

I know my sound when i hear it. My stroke is just my stroke..