A drone isn't any different than a bomb; it's not any different than other weapons that are used, where there is always a capacity for people to be killed who you wished were not. It's just the weapons platform.
I love music of all kinds, but there's no greater music than the sound of my grandchildren laughing; my kids, too.
The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.
The idea of being famous is a lot better than the reality.
Granted, we need to have a sound immigration policy that allows people into our country who are going to produce more than they are going to consume, but the bottom line is illegal aliens consume far more of our tax resources than they generate.
Europe is scooters. Europe is five young people on one bench sharing a chocolate bar. Their idea of entertainment and fun is so much different than ours, which is exactly why a movie about them would be funny.
I was ready to get out of the box and play something a little different than what everybody has seen.
For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.
Once you're out there in front of people, I don't think there's any choice than to just give it your all.
If you wanted to build the most powerful computer you could, you can't do better than including everything in the universe that's potentially available.
I think it is probably more important to attend specialized conventions for a journeyman writer than any other, but it's useful at all stages of a career, if for nothing else, to find out how the industry is working at any given time.
My valleys are higher than most people's peaks. I stay at that level.
Raising children is a creative endeavor, an art rather than a science.
The rules of evidence in the main are based on experience, logic, and common sense, less hampered by history than some parts of the substantive law.
In the middle of the nineteenth century, the United States embarked on a new relationship with death, entering into a civil war that proved bloodier than any other conflict in American history, a war that would presage the slaughter of World War I's Western Front and the global carnage of the twentieth century.
The only truly affluent are those who do not want more than they have.
There is nothing greater than the joy of composing something oneself and then listening to it.
I've always known there's more to life than just racing for a long time.
The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers.
I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.
I used to write sonnets and various things, and moved from there into writing prose, which, incidentally, is a lot more interesting than poetry, including the rhythms of prose.
It's very easy to confuse Sean Connery with James Bond. Sometimes in the entertainment industry, people believe the cake is more real than the baker.
I think doing The Improv is a little more ominous than doing a college campus because it was so different than anything I'd done.
The tabloids are like animals, with their own behavioural patterns. There's no point in complaining about them, any more than complaining that lions might eat you.
It is so much easier to try to help a six-month-old child or a six-year-old child than it is a 16-year-old troubled kid.
I think my kids give mommy more attention than they give me.
I think Ginsberg has done more harm to the craft that I honor and live by than anybody else by reducing it to a kind of mean that enables the most dubious practitioners to claim they are poets because they think, If the kind of thing Ginsberg does is poetry, I can do that.
There's nothing more exciting as an actor than getting to do something that you're not entirely sure that anyone would let you do, and getting to take a big jump in a completely different direction.
Nothing has an uglier look to us than reason, when it is not on our side.
In reality, Afghanistan has functioned as a nation-state for more than two centuries, and its army and bureaucracy reach back to the 19th century.
I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.
Indeed, the actor's lot is a much harder one than that of the director's, from one simple standpoint: The actor has to play the eight shows a week.
What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined - to strengthen each other - to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
I just prefer wood. I like the smell. To me, it's a lot cheaper than electric or gas, and it's more convenient. It's just a better heat to me.
At the start of his second term, one wonders less about Obama's fitness than his willingness: Why doesn't he do more to build and maintain the relationships required to govern in era of polarization?
