Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.
I hope I'm wrong, but I am afraid that Iraq is going to turn out to be the greatest disaster in American foreign policy - worse than Vietnam, not in the number who died, but in terms of its unintended consequences and its reverberation throughout the region.
A fanatic is one who sticks to his guns whether they're loaded or not.

