I know just one thing is those guys, KG and everyone, they're hungry. They want it bad. Sam's the only one that's had that, has the ring. Other than him, everybody else over there, we want it bad.

I'm 33 years old now. I really want that ring. I got a taste of it here.

Sometimes change is good. Although I didn't want to leave.

So much tension around here in New York. They want to fine you for every little thing you do.

And it raises a fundamental question: How long can we move the world in one direction while we move in another direction, and do we want to backslide into an era that we finally emerged from where we had a nuclear weapon for every tactical mission?

You can't have a world where 50 percent of the people are dieting and 50 percent of the people are starving if you want stability.

I'm at the depot, and I'm not going anywhere. That's better to deal with than having to deal with the unknown. And the unknown is they don't want to fail. They don't want to pay the price unless there's a guarantee they're going to get there.

If I had parallel lives to pursue, I would also want one as a painter.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

Authors want their names down in history; I want to keep the smoke coming out of the chimney.

I want to be the Cecil B. DeMille of science fiction.

When I grow up, I still want to be a director.

And I think that's righteous, I think that's what parents want to know. They want to know what's going right in the school, and what needs improvement, and that's what this law does.

We want to obviously foster a relationship that we're a partner with states; that we all share the same goals of closing the achievement gap, just as the Congress does; and that we're practical and sophisticated enough to understand what they're talking about.

In Connecticut, my understanding, although I haven't seen the actual litigation, is that they want to measure every other year and not provide annual assessment as is required in the statute.