At 'GQ,' there was never a temptation to pander or preach to the choir because I had no concept of who the reader was or what that reader might want.
Need' now means wanting someone else's money. 'Greed' means wanting to keep your own. 'Compassion' is when a politician arranges the transfer.
The real triumph of the state occurs when its subjects refer to it as “we,” like football fans talking about the home team.
How is justice served if the victim and the accused are working together to make it all go away? Somebody please explain that to me.
We cannot consume our way into personal growth. Yet, millions of us have bought into this cynical concept of faux identity.
There's no better feeling in the world than knowing that my show played a role in stopping animal abuse or alleviating animal suffering.
I think everybody who commits a violent killing is in some way crazy. But that doesn't mean we can let them off the hook for that.
The most important thing a magazine can do online is maintain its brand and be very strong in terms of delivering on that brand.
Destruction is as valid an artistic statement as construction. Both statements echo the model of the society we live in. The only invalid art is utopian
As life speeds up & the political becomes ever more personal democracy continues to foster change as fast as the movement of tectonic plates
Both precious and absurd, this tightrope of existence we walk in both directions; strung only on a rhythm of heartbeats across a void
Expect the unexpected like a chain smoking, hard drinking, monochrome world dwelling Noir Detective
When inspiration comes life is lived in the moment and peace descends. When inspiration leaves thoughts turn to violently killing time
The Devil fights from behind barricades of linguistic complexity, but the war of words will be won by those armed only with simplistic truths
Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.
There isn't a single human being who hasn't plenty to cry over, and the trick is to make the laughs outweigh the tears.
For me, it makes sense to address shocking experiences through poems because of the way poems also have that effect on the reader.
If a policy is wrongheaded, feckless and corrupt, I take it personally and consider it a moral obligation to sound off and not shut up until it's fixed.
That's what supporting the troops is really all about - making sure American grunts get the right stuff!
Fortunately, it's still not too late to develop a comprehensive global strategy to eliminate our real enemy.
Fighting terrorism is not unlike fighting a deadly cancer. It can't be treated just where it's visible - every diseased cell in the body must be destroyed.
