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.”