"I was young and stupid then. Now I'm not young anymore."

“The President does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation.”

“What has happened to create this doubt is that a problem (such as a deep conflict or a bad experience) has been allowed to usurp God's place and become the controlling principle of life. Instead of viewing the problem from the vantage point of faith, the doubter views faith from the vantage point of the problem. Instead of faith sizing up the problem, the situation ends with the problem scaling down faith. The world of faith is upside down, and in the topsy-turvy reality of doubt, a problem has become god and God has become a problem.”

“Seek freedom within action.”

“Nobody wants to hear Metallica at lunchtime.”

Source : Interview with Chris Heath, www.gq.com. May 15, 2012.

“It is a commonplace that Racine is untranslatable. This is not because his verse is difficult, but because it is not.”

“Life without you is like a broken pencil, there's no point.”

“Nostalgia is an illness for those who haven't realized that today is tomorrow's nostalgia.”

“... it's hard to be politically conscious and upwardly mobile at the same time.”