While I disagree with our presence in Iraq and Afghanistan, I have nothing but respect and admiration for the men and women deployed in these places.

There are religions and social and moral awareness in any society that gets passed immediately. Those human truths. All cultures address them.

In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move.

I want to learn more about the world. It makes me want to get up and go.

The arts in America exist in spite of America, not because of America.

This sounds really corny, but I am a slave to my work, a workaholic, and glad of it. I like what I do; this is my place, my little universe, one of them.

The Ruts were a great punk rock band from England whose songs were as excellent as their time together was short.