The Cause Doesn't Have To Be Righteous

Well, You Got To Remember, Bin Laden Killed 3,000 Americans And, In Some Ways, He And His Ideology Killed Tens Of Thousands Of His Fellow Muslims, Including Pakistanis. I Understand That That Was Provocative And Complicated For Pakistan, But Only If You Accept The Idea That He Was An Acceptable Member Of Pakistani Society.

I Have Been Working Since I Was 20, And I'm 38. I Actually Once Averaged Out What I Had Made Over My Professional Life. I Think I Could Have Made That Much As A Waiter Or An Insurance Salesman. You Know, I Spent So Many Years In My 20's Making $10,000 A Year.

Often People Who Live Through The Trauma Are Nostalgic When It's Over. When I Went Back To Bosnia 20 Years After The Brutal Civil War, Even People Who Had Been Badly Wounded Told Me They Missed Those Times. They Were Missing Their More Courageous Selves.

It's Fun To Have Money, But The More Money I Get, The Less Interesting It Becomes. If You Don't Have Very Much, You Have To Think About It. If You Are Starving, You Become Interested In Food. If You Are Struggling To Pay The Bills, Money Becomes Tragically Important.

Here's An Easy Way To See If A War Movie Is Being Truthful: If You See An Explosion On A Faraway Hillside And The Sound Of The Explosion And The Detonation Of The Bomb Happen At The Same Time - If They're Putting The Sound And The Vision Together In The Same Moment - They're Going Toward Our Cultural Understanding Of War, Not The Reality Of War.