It is the job of the dog trainer to summon the dog's genetics, not to impose man's will over dog's.

I had been saying to myself for a good many years that I was really a writer and that I was in advertising temporarily.

I'm a workaday writer.

What we didn't realize then - and one of the many things Timothy Leary was wrong about - is that when you drop out, you inevitably also drop in.

I support Israel. And I have long supported a two-state solution and a democratic and secure state for the Jewish people, with a democratic and viable Palestinian state side-by-side in peace and dignity.

It's always disappointing to come across phony do-gooders. And it's easy to scoff at celebrities working in war zones.

Well, I've been reading a lot about the fifty years since the Second World War, about Western foreign policy and all that. I try not to let it get to me, but sometimes I just think that there's no hope.

The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate... we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just.