I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.
Talking to all those great writers and artists for the magazine was a form of graduate school for me.
It's always surprised me that mainstream America had the good taste to like R. E. M. It doesn't have the digestible quality the general public tends to look for in its favorite musicians.
The first horror movie I saw, in first or second grade, was My Bloody Valentine [1981], where there's a deranged killer in a miner mask stalking a small coal town.
I was never afraid on stage. That's where I was the least afraid. I could just do what I do and I had the amplification and the lights.
There's a structure to a detective story that I can easily understand. I understand playing that particular game. It's like solving a puzzle. Or creating a puzzle.
I like to be alone, I mean, I really love to be alone more than anything else, and I don't really like to talk about myself to death, and I don't like to share too much, and I don't really have dreams of extreme fame or even extreme respect.
The president desires a peaceful resolution of the confrontation with North Korea and we'll continue to pursue that, but it all begins when the Kim regime announces their willingness to abandon their nuclear and ballistic missiles program and not before.
The war. . . was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides.
The military preferred - invariably - those who could be readily defined, assigned roles, understood, and controlled.
You must show the world that you abhor fighting.