If I hear, 'Be afraid of Tehran,' I'm like, 'I'd better go to Tehran.'

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 do think that Americans are poorly served by their media, at times extremely poorly served by their elected officials who are non responsive to majority feelings and cut off to a certain degree from the affairs of the world.

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

You don't have to twist my arm to work.

But I have a good life. I enjoy what I do. I am married to work.

I can only write about personal stuff, about my point of view.