People say I'm such a pessimist, but I always was. It never stopped me from doing what I had to do. I would say I'm a realist.

There's a consensus out that it's OK to kill when your government decides who to kill. If you kill inside the country you get in trouble. If you kill outside the country, right time, right season, latest enemy, you get a medal.

People say I'm such a pessimist, but I always was. It never stopped me from doing what I had to do. I would say I'm a realist.

If you don't have music, you have silence. There is power in both.

God must have something to do with joy ... and with sadness.

If you swing both ways, you really swing. I just figure you double your pleasure.

In other words, it is what I do in the world that matters. When I traveled for three months in the Mideast, the places I wanted to go back to were Turkey and the Gaza Strip. It has to do with what Gandhi said: he found God in the eyes of the poor. Those are the places which were so moving that they were just unbearable.