But we are going to keep trying to communicate with the Cuban people by any means we can.

The Cuban regime's hurling of angry and often violent groups against pro-democratic dissidents is particularly disgusting.

I'm just trying to help people who are sick, and really that's our focus.

The only difference was one of them was trying to make a perfect cake and one of them was trying to write a great book. But if we remove that from the equation, it's the same impulse and they are equally entitled to their ecstasies and their despair.

Well, when you're trying to create things that are new, you have to be prepared to be on the edge of risk.

I don't like to be second in anything. I was trying, I just wasn't going anywhere.