I'm a history person; I love history. But I am conditioned by the present.

What needs to happen is more of a global understanding, and I believe the United States can work as a global partner and not be the hegemon.

We have enormous challenges in front of us.

I've changed my style constantly, so I'm not sure I have one defined style, except perhaps style of subject matter.

I look at Homer and The Odyssey and all the disparate adventures this guy goes through, and then he returns home and the question is, is he the same man who left?

Well first of all you have to make the character strong so that people can follow that. And then hopefully that character can integrate with the background of the social situation that people can recognize.

Unfortunately, the truth is that people do go scot-free and it's unfair. A lot of the top drug people who have been arrested are also free.