They didn't play that convincingly, but they were there when it counted. By comparison, we looked inexperienced.

They didn't play that convincingly, but they were there when it counted. By comparison, we looked inexperienced.

It's very easy to say everything is outrageous. But if you have an oil company that's setting up its own read more

It's very easy to say everything is outrageous. But if you have an oil company that's setting up its own environmental department, for example, what do you do? Do you spit in its eye, or do you make sure that what they do actually has some substance?

We need clarification from the court as to what exactly it means when (statute) says we're exempt from impact fees.

We need clarification from the court as to what exactly it means when (statute) says we're exempt from impact fees.

[These others -- the overwhelming majority of Iraq's people -- have repeatedly given every indication of valuing their newfound freedom: read more

[These others -- the overwhelming majority of Iraq's people -- have repeatedly given every indication of valuing their newfound freedom: voting in two elections at the risk of their lives, preparing for a third, writing and ratifying a constitution granting more freedoms than exist in any country in the entire Arab Middle East.] The secret is out, ... There is something decent unfolding in Iraq. It's unfolding in the shadow of a terrible insurgency, but a society is finding its way to constitutional politics.

It was really important for us to come out of the locker room with a lot of intensity. And those read more

It was really important for us to come out of the locker room with a lot of intensity. And those quick shots we made right out of the locker room were really big for us.

I think the British have the distinction above all other nations of being able to put new wine into old read more

I think the British have the distinction above all other nations of being able to put new wine into old bottles without bursting them.

I do not want a plain box, I want a sarcophagus
With tigery stripes, and a face on it
Round read more

I do not want a plain box, I want a sarcophagus
With tigery stripes, and a face on it
Round as the moon, to stare up.
I want to be looking at them when they come
Picking among the dumb minerals, the roots.
I see them already-the pale, star-distance faces.
Now they are nothing, they are not even babies.
I imagine them without fathers or mothers, like the first gods.
They will wonder if I was important.

This was a visceral reaction to a horrible event. He feels a sense of responsibility, not just as a senator, read more

This was a visceral reaction to a horrible event. He feels a sense of responsibility, not just as a senator, but as an African-American senator.

Hugging trees has a calming effect on me. I'm talking about enormous trees that will be there when we are read more

Hugging trees has a calming effect on me. I'm talking about enormous trees that will be there when we are all dead and gone. I've hugged trees in every part of this little island.