Most characters are composed of snippets here and there of people I've known, and all rolled into the character I've created. They do become like their own people.
Bethlehem was God with us, Calvary was God for us, and Pentecost is God in us.
If you want them to be tortured, you send them to Syria. If you want someone to disappear – never to see them again – you send them to Egypt.
The CIA is an incompetent bureaucracy, generally.
The first suicide bombing that entered my consciousness was the Beirut embassy bombing. It was very personal. I'd been in the embassy and I knew most of the people in the station who were killed in the bombing. So you take the personal aspect of it and the mystery of who the bomber was and the fact that a small group of people could drive us out of a country that was absolutely key to the United States, and what was behind this. . . The fact that they've been able to hide the embassy bombers' identities for all these years tells me we're up against a very capable movement.
Destroying Iraq was the greatest strategic blunder this country has made in its history. Unless we change course, there's every reason to believe the Iraq War will end up changing the United States more than it will ever change Iraq.
I take my own experience and other assassinations through history and get a lot into the drone program, which doesn't work, as well.
Men say they are of the same religion, for quietness' sake; but if the matter were well examined, you would scarce find three anywhere of the same religion on all points.
You have to look closely To see that it is pretty You have to look long To see that it is lovable You are the same
Some of the best motivation in life is trying to impress a girl.
Art is lunging forward without certainty about where you are going or how to get there, being open to and dependent on what luck, the paint, the typo, the dissonance, give you. Without art, you're stuck with yourself as you are and life as you think life is.