Part of this new world of completely improvisational terrorism is that there were codes of war that disintegrated in the face of terrorism.

Ive always found a cure for the blues is wandering into something unknown, and resting there, before coming back to whatever weight you were carrying.

I read once, which I loved so much, that this great physicist who won a Nobel Prize said that every day when he got home, his dad asked him not what he learned in school but his dad said, 'Did you ask any great questions today?' And I always thought, what a beautiful way to educate kids that we're excited by their questions, not by our answers and whether they can repeat our answers.

There's a definite sense this morning on the part of the Kerry voters that perhaps this is code, 'moral values,' is code for something else. It's code for taking a different position about gays in America, an exclusionary position, a code about abortion, code about imposing Christianity over other faiths.

Don't let other people tell you who you are.

I get involved in the beginning, less in the middle, and very much at the end.

The interesting thing is always to see if you can find a fact that will change your mind about something, to test and see if you can.