Our relations with brothers in Gulf Cooperation council are good and developing, either bilateral relations or with the G.C.C itself, also we have good brotherly and solid ties with Saudi Arabia.

I'm a good operator: good with food and good with math.

My generation has a hard time being genuine and enthusiastic. There's a lot of irony in our culture.

If you assume that it was a valid experiment, then its disintegration reveals a very substantial part of what has been found since then, including the fact that you can get heat generation at high temperature.

It became very clear that Hanoi was in effect strategically running the Viet Cong operation.

I went to graduate school with zero expectation. I kind of backed into it. I wanted to go back to school because I felt gaps in my literary background. I studied mostly twentieth-century English literature in college, so I thought, 'Maybe I'll go back for my writing.'

You kind of get the same adjectives coming back over again and over again describing millennials. I think the national rhetoric around this generation is unfairly negative.

My generation has to deal with how to overcome a trauma, how to overcome destruction, and how to tell the truth to the next generation.

When I am in front of the camera or on stage, I am not me.

I have argued that the Soviet story is one of the interaction of speculative excess or utopian aspirations with refractory reality.

I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.

What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude.

I'm just very obsessed with Japanese stuff in general.

Plot is to literature what individual holes are to miniature golf.

I am absolutely of the videogames generation, starting on the Atari and Commodore 64 and the Amiga.

I've always preferred being behind the camera.

LinkedIn is the Netscape of its era.

The word 'tolerance' once meant we all have the right to argue rationally for our deepest convictions in the public arena. Now it means those convictions are not even subject to rational debate.

There is enormous value in face to face interaction.

Being a songwriter, you are accepting that this isn't about you. If you do want it to be about you, you're going to be really miserable.