I knew who Buckley and Vidal were growing up, being a political junkie.

The idea of music coming from the Church is not new.

I always tell aspiring documentary filmmakers, 'You have to go into it because you love it; if you go into it for the money, you're an idiot.' The number one prerequisite is you have to be intensely curious. If you love learning and trying to make people figure out what makes people tick, it's the best job in the world.

I always like learning the small details about a subject.

We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death.

In the event of the death of a current or former President, like the recent death of President Ronald Reagan, the flag should be flown at half-staff for thirty days from the day of the death.

The longer your life goes on, the more death you face.

He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.