A lot of Americans don't have a passport, never will have a passport. Not only will they not travel, they don't want to travel.

Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people just isn't worth the time and effort.

If American forces leave Afghanistan, the Taliban is going to do what to America? Don't say you're worried about what they will do to the Afghan people. If that was America's concern, America's operational presence there would be much different.

Fish is the only kind of respirating thing that I consume. Everything else I don't want any part of.

A country that has been through as much as Vietnam has to have some crazy music somewhere.

Books are cool, but knowledge without mileage doesn't mean anything to me.

August brings into sharp focus and a furious boil everything I've been listening to in the late spring and summer.