I know that government doesn't have the all solutions that real solutions do not come from the top down. Instead, the ways to end poverty come from all of us. We are part of the solution. Chicago's neighborhoods have always been this city's greatest strength. I knew her work very well and I knew that if she offered me a role in her movie, it wouldn't be something stupid. So I agreed to do the film before I read the script. When I write a song, it's all about the riff - the riff first, then the words come later. Even back then, I exuded self-confidence, and that drives women crazy. I had to experience how someone beside me suddenly falls over and is dead and the bullet has hit him squarely. I had to experience that quite directly. I wanted it. I'm therefore not a pacifist at all - or am I? People are going to say what they want to say and think what they want to think, and I can't change their minds. Writing poetry makes you intensely conscious of how words sound, both aloud and inside the head of the reader. You learn the weight of words and how they sound to the ear. For me concrete poetry was a particular way of using language which came out of a particular feeling, and I don't have control over whether this feeling is in me or not. Every nation has its war party... It is commercial, imperialistic, ruthless. It tolerates no opposition. Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest. If your desk isn't cluttered, you probably aren't doing your job. Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of engaging reality. One man with courage makes a majority. The abortion controversy is important for what it says about our stance toward procreation and children altogether. We don't necessarily always agree, but hopefully we make each other think, and that's what matters. That taxes may be the ostensible cause is true, but that they are the true cause is as far remote from truth as light from darkness. The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment. It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. I didn't know anything about breast cancer when I got it. When we were engaged in the problems of survival we had no time to have anything to do with culture. You only grow when you are alone. Yeah, I had an idea to make a very scary movie, based on a kind of serial murderer that preys on tourists. Ronald Reagan gave our party a bowling alley image as opposed to a country club image. We were talking to people who go bowling on Thursday night, and they were understanding what we were saying. I usually shop at Charlotte Ruth and Bebe. I asked God if it was a sin and He didn't say anything. The United States spends more money on African aid than any nation on earth. I like to stay home and watch television. The Game Show channel, mostly. The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day. In this film George presents issues that are important, essential and vital, whoever you are, about constitutional rights and the bedrock of a democracy. I am drawn to those kinds of stories because they inspire me - they are responsible to a populace and responsible to man. Live the life you've dreamed. I missed that question on Alaska. I hear they want to make it a state now. There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with.