President Obama is the least transparent president in the history of this country.
Different roads sometimes lead to the same castle. Who knows?
But if that's not enough, then consider this: if the Night's Watch are truly brothers, then Lord Commander Mormont was our father. He lived and died for the Watch and he was betrayed by his own men, stabbed in the back by cowards. He deserved far better.
I want to fight for the side that fights for the living. Did I come to the right place?
Winter is coming, we know what's coming with it. We can learn to live with the wildlings, or we can add them to the army of the dead.
The only way to do my job without optimism would be as a cynic, and that's not my nature.
My whole day is built around meetings that can be achieved around bike rides. My contract actually offers me a free car from my home to my office and back, but I suppose I am addicted to cycling.
See that each hour's feelings, and thoughts and actions are pure and true; then your life will be also.
John Kerry gave the enemy for free what I and many of my comrades in North Vietnam in the prison camps took torture to avoid saying.
I [drinking coffee] for about an hour, I get dressed and go down in my studio, and that's a different kind of working.
I was 16 when I came to New York. I had graduated to a tenor banjo in the school jazz band, and it was kind of boring - just chords, chords, chords. Then my father took me to a mountain music and dance festival in Asheville, North Carolina, and there I saw relatively uneducated people playing great music by ear.