When people think about reparations, they immediately think about people who've been dead for 100 years.
I guess I'm attracted and repelled by isolation. It scares me. And it's why I tend to write about older characters, too, because for them the stakes are somewhat higher.
A dancer's life is all about repetition.
I would not like to be replaced by someone who immediately sets about undoing what I've tried to do for 25-26 years.
I've stopped war reporting. I realized that I'd answered all of my questions about war and about myself.
The Chinese are good at repression and can be pretty ruthless about it.
I reproach so many things about my family, but on the other hand, I kept asking them to be my family.
It is not about Republicanism, it's about conservatism.
The Science Coalition, which grew out of an initial concept at Harvard and at MIT, has now grown to an informal group of about 60 research universities.
I have reservations about everything I do.
At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with.
I don't care about the underground, even if that's where I'm currently residing sonically.
California has the highest number of illegal immigrants residing in its borders. The estimated number of illegal alien residents in California was about 2.2 million, or nearly 32 percent of the total number of illegal immigrants in the United States.
The shades of respectability begin to close about the greying head.
Civilisation is partly about restraining the male of the species from engaging in the violence of the hunter-gatherer period. But it doesn't take an awful lot to unleash it.
I do have concerns about the current efforts to restructure our nation's intelligence community.
Guys are kind of retarded until they're about 30.
After Sept. 11, there was a reticence and worrying about films that touched on war, and even more on terrorism.
There is a probably natural and learned reticence with myself talking about my early life.
I don't care about revenues.
