Just because we live in a Christian era doesn't mean we're all Christian, necessarily.

Сyber-warfare is obviously the future. It's a real concern, but we lie so much about what we do that it's hard to know what's going on unless you really follow it.

I'm a dramatist. Dramatists have a right to look at history and interpret it the way they see it.

JFK was leading the world, leading the United States into a new position with the Soviet Union. He was calling for the end of the Cold War. He would have been reelected in 1964 because he was vastly popular.

I'd rather get past the tyranny of now, where you get judged for something based on what's happening at the moment.

The Greek playwrights, we're all beholden to them, every one of us.

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.