All of the things that the bible warns you of being: jealous, covetous, murderous, selfish, etc., that's kind of how humans are.

In Israel, there's a lot to learn from anyone, because to live there you've got to deal with the truth. Things happen real fast. Your day goes from cool to catastrophic in one second. Israelis know that the cafe you're in could blow up, or the shopping mall, and they rock that.

Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated.

We Americans are hard on almost everything. We are hard on our vehicles, our marriages and our heroes. Mostly, however, we are hard on ourselves.

I still have dreams about CBGB's. I still miss the place.

Politics is a thing that I follow because it determines what is going on in my country, but I vote and deal with politicians with a great degree of jaundiced eye.

Consumerism is at once the engine of America and simultaneously one of the most revealing indicators of our collective shallowness.