Normally, if you go through a game without attracting attention, you are doing a hell of a job.

We will pay any price that we are instructed to. But the money has to come from somewhere.

In November, 1964 when I was a patient at the Mayo Clinic I though seriously about killing myself.

The whole book experience was a look into another world, the world of Gore Vidal and Norman Mailer.

I am livid with rage, sitting here in chains through this mad war which kills any meaning of life... My nerves are shattered and my mind darkened.

Rebels in Darfur have learned the value of mobilizing western human rights groups to prolong wars, and this lesson is working gloriously for them.

One of my favorite movies of all time is 'It's A Wonderful Life,' which is a pretty interesting choice for a seasonal Christmas favorite, because it's about a guy who wants to commit suicide and is presented with reasons not to.

I started culinary school at a very young age, and really I wanted to be out working, cooking, more than I wanted to be in a classroom. You could say I wasn't a very good student - I wanted to be a student of life and experience.