I'm terrible at horror movies, by the way. I get scared so easily.

I was lost, and that war [in Vietnam] was very alienating - not that I was against it or for it, but I was just lost after that war. As were many Americans.

I think our life is a series of adventures.

People are still living in the moment, and they feel the passion of now.

It's very important to understand that World War II is at the base of this new policy. From the 1890s on, the U.S. was always imperialistic. We went after the Philippines, and we did the same in Cuba, in Hawaii. We controlled South America. Woodrow Wilson was not what he was supposed to be. He was very much a white man first. "The world must be made safe for democracy." It really accelerates after World War II.

The past assumes the nature of the present.

I couldn't despise a man more than George W. Bush.