Dinosaur Jr. in their live capacity are a band that put me in a state of such overwhelming rock that it often takes quite a while to come down.

America's foreign policy lacks the backbone to do the right thing in Afghanistan - which is leave.

Pride is a thing that I have tried to abandon completely. Try as I might, pride still creeps into many of the things I do.

I could fall in love with a cruel desert that kills without passion, a canyon full of scorpions, one thousand blinding arctic storms, a century sealed in a cave, a river of molten salt flowing down my throat. But never with you.

I was in Pakistan in Islamabad when Bhutto was assassinated, and the next day, you know, there's just plumes of smoke everywhere. I mean, Islamabad is on fire.

If there was a god, he wouldn't let a guy walk right up and shoot you in the face now would he? That's right, now you get the picture. Truth burns doesn't it?

I wonder if the guy at the gun store would give me a discount on the bullets I'll need if I told him what I was up to.