To me the notion that Palestinians are actually Jews is, I think, quite revelatory and very radical and a possible bridge that has been ignored, I think, in this entire controversy and there's ample evidence to support it.

It's funny how sometimes historians sneer at journalists, yet they depend on us in the future for the material that they mine. You realize that some of the stories wouldn't have been told if you hadn't gotten to them. There is that sense of capturing a moment that was just about to go over the horizon.

There are many different rivers that lead into despair: there's poverty; there's political repression; there's gender apartheid - there's a sense of culture loss; there's religious fanaticism.

IRS is very poorly equipped to make a distinction between what is a religion and what is not.

I don't dispute Scientology can help people; I think that is a very important fact to keep in mind.

Unlike the talent for war, the ability to make peace has always been rare.

I think when I write movies and plays and books and magazine articles, they're all storytelling, and reality is the common denominator that binds them.