For better or worse, I've been involved in the description of political conflict.

I mean, I'm in the business of storytelling, not message making.

The Cold War was over long before it was officially declared dead.

Jesus Christ only had twelve, you know, and one of them was a double.

Those who are not with Mr. Bush are against him. Worse, they are with the enemy. Which is odd, because I'm dead against Bush, but I would love to see Saddam's downfall -- just not on Bush's terms and not by his methods. And not under the banner of such outrageous hypocrisy.

America has entered one of its periods of historic madness, but this is the worst I can remember.

A dead man is the worst enemy alive, I thought. You can't alter his power over you. You can't alter what you love or owe. And it's too late to ask him for his absolution. He has beaten you all ways.