I do not want to criticize while my soldiers are still bleeding and dying in Iraq.
We are a debtor nation, our airports are third world, our highways are falling apart. Our roads, our bridges, everything, we're like third world.
It's very important that people aspire to be successful. The only way you can do it is if you look at somebody who is.
You know, I'm, like, a smart person.
Don't be so petty. Sometimes you have to do business with people you don't like. It doesn't mean you have to be like them or like them.
We have had a lot of problems where you look at San Bernardino, you look at Orlando, you look at the World Trade Center, you look at so many different things.
I had crazy experience when I was talking to voters at the Nevada caucus the other night in Vegas. Voter after voter after voter, these are Republican primary voters, caucus goers, saying I don`t listen to Fox anymore. I can`t trust Fox anymore. I`m over them. And these were all [Donald] Trump supporters who he had successfully sort of pried their trust away from the thing they have been trusting for years.
If you look at how many thousands and thousands of pages, Web pages, are being added to the Internet every day, it's the fastest growing organism in human history for communications.
I saw someone peeing in Jermym Street the other day. I thought, is this the end of civilization as we know it? Or is it simply someone peeing in Jermyn Street?
Louise Gluck, C. K. Williams, Thomas Lux. A lot of the poets that I like are the ones that influenced me as a writer.
Human nature will find itself only when it fully realizes that to be human it has to cease to be beastly or brutal.