It was really frightening to watch all of this. I just don't understand what was behind it, what was the concept.

I saw the van chasing one particular cow, striking it in the back. The cow fell. He backed off, and then re-hit the cow again. One cow, the brown cow, that he hit was limping. He backed off, she got up and then he hit her again. And then he backed off and she was having a hard time to walk. Then he ran to the other side and hit the other cows.

(I was) very tempted to get my car, run through those gates and stop him.

My dad was dean of fine arts at the university. I was casting bronzes in the school foundry. I was using the university as a playground.

Autobiography is awfully seductive; it's wonderful. Once I got into it, I realized I was following a tradition established by Frederick Douglass - the slave narrative - speaking in the first-person singular, talking about the first-person plural, always saying 'I,' meaning 'we.'

After the Democrats' obstructionist approach to Social Security reform, it is more difficult for them to claim the mantle of fiscal responsibility.