Quotes About Author

I am the Counselor at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.

In every thriller written about Washington, particularly after 9/11, there are good guys and there are bad guys, and there's no gray area at all.

Barack Obama and Michelle Obama don't go to Georgetown... The Clintons did, indeed. And the Clintons go out and about in Washington now. They go to neighborhood restaurants.

I've never really read any books about Washington, neither the politics nor the city.

I didn't work for any newspapers in college, never worked for any newspaper before 'The Washington Post'.

I've lived in Washington since 1981 and have been a faithful reader of 'The Washington Post' ever since.

My favourite Heineken Cup memory as a player was undoubtedly sharing in Wasps' final triumph in 2007.

I'm not going to waste my time screaming at a neo-Nazi who is going to hate me no matter what.

Superfund was passed with the good intention of cleaning up America's toxic waste sites.

This is mainly because I spend a lot of time writing and so don't have much time to read; I hate to waste that time reading what may turn out to be junk food for the mind, when there's so much real writing to be read.

I don't sit there and speculate. I'm not that sort of person. It wastes time, actually.

I really hate drama. It's draining; it's mentally draining. It's a waste of time.

People ask me do I want to do my coaching badges. Why? You're not given a chance, so no. I wouldn't be looking forward to doing my coaching badges. It's a waste of time.

I hate politics. I like to write about it, but to get involved in it, to try and make a lot of ignorant people do what you want them to do, waste of time. Go and write a book. It's more important and it'll last longer.

I don't want to write any more screenplays, I'll tell you that right now. It's a waste of time. You've got too many people who think they have the answer to a good screenplay and they don't. No one knows.

No, no, no. Dick Cheney forbade me to waste time on his image. I would have liked to have done more.

His eyes so dim, so wasted each limb, that, heedless of grammar, they all cried, that's him!

Gore Vidal was a man of immense literary talent, some of which he used well, some of which he wasted.

Most of my columns at National Review focus on PC culture, and sometimes, when I write about some idiotic, anti-free-speech idea presented by some idiotic, anti-free-speech student or professor, people will ask me why I wasted my time writing about it.

I feel as if my mission is to write, to see, to observe, and I feel lazy if I'm not reaching conclusions. I feel stupid. I feel as if I'm wasting my time.

I don't see why a book shouldn't be intellectually sound, entertaining, and fun to read. Historians who write academic history, which is unreadable, are basically wasting their time.

I love all the 'Twilight' characters. I can watch Kristen Stewart and think, 'I want to be that role someday.'

It's not terrifying to watch 'Mindhunter,' necessarily, but it's just unsettling. You can find Aileen Wuornos just talking to a camera. It's hard to watch. Her eyeballs, they are just terrifying.

We got skate parks in different states, but me skating? Nah, I'm too gangster; I can't rock with it. But I watch it.