Poetry always runs away from you – its very difficult to grasp it, and every time you read it, depending on your conditions, you will have a different grasp of it. Whereas with a novel, once you have read it, you have grasped it. – Abbas Kiarostami
Mosaic is the 1990s equivalent of forcing friends to sit through slides of your trip to Florida – painful for everyone but the host. – Steve G. Steinberg
I really love rap music. I grew up in the 80s and 90s with Public Enemy, N.W.A., LL Cool J – Im a hip-hop encyclopedia. But I got kind of frustrated with the chauvinistic side of rap music, the one that makes it hard to write songs about love and relationships. – Mayer Hawthorne
It is vital that the United States maintains open lines of communication with our allies. We must assure them of our commitment to eradicating global terrorism wherever it may reside or wherever its given haven. – George Allen
