"The great thing about the United States and the historically magnetic effect it has had on a lot of people like me is its generosity, to put it simply."

"I don't think it's possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor."

"I love it when Muslims go to war with each other, as I do when the Christians do, because it shows there's no such thing as the Christian world and the Islamic world. That's all crap."

"I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove psychopathic dictators."

"It is a essential truth that a life well-lived leaves an aroma of kindness long after the sun has set."

"America's a very traumatized society."

"It is a subtle truth that to love deeply is to give someone the power to heal what words cannot reach."

"A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness."