When I was growing up the obvious antisemites were the knuckle-draggers in the National Front.
We cannot forget that we are a nation founded by refugees who were fleeing oppression and often fearful for their lives.
We jumped on a train in the mid-80s, and that train was 'hair metal.'
I was in the Army in the 1960s. I didn't go to Vietnam. I went to Germany, where I drank beer. But I did have an empathy with the soldiers in Vietnam.
I can remember in the late 1980s and early 1990s how many men with AIDS I saw everywhere in Key West. There were hospices and medical supply stores geared to people with AIDS. It seemed that every...
In 1975, no State or Church guidelines existed in the Republic of Ireland to assist those responding to an allegation of abuse against a minor. No training was given to priests, teachers, police...
On 'Underground,' we had used contemporary music to pull you into the present and not just look at it as a portrait on the wall and in the past.
Trump has raised the very issues I raised in the early '90s.
I like to have Chinese furniture in my home as a constant and painful reminder of how much has been destroyed in China. The contrast between the beauty of the past and the ugliness of the modern is...
I never thought I wanted to write about the '50s, because I thought it was the most boring and bland decade to grow up in, and I never wanted to go back there.
Some people would like the world to go back to the 1950s.
During the summer of 2009, conservative activists turned up the heat on Democratic politicians to protest the innovation-destroying, liberty-usurping Obamacare mandate. In the summer of 2012, it's...
You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.
But that was war. Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated...
The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and...
You better take care of me Lord, if you don't you're gonna have me on your hands.
It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter...
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is...
If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would...
Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.