There's a lot of comedy in Intermission but it's got this depth. It's not comedy for comedy's sake - it's informed by something else. I like stuff like that.
Ordering is difficult. It's like arranging pieces of music in a concert: What do you put first? What do you put after the intermission? I want the reader to be sort of surprised, to come to each story freshly.
The reality is that international institutions like the UN can only be as effective as its members allow it to be.
Governments have been ceding power to big multinational corporations in the market. We see the manifest in a variety of ways. Where governments are giving up power to big international institutions like the World Trade Organization or NAFTA, which are disabling governments' ability to protect the rights of their own people.
My dream is to take the Indian independent music scene to an international level. People like Alisha Chinai, Baba Sehgal and Daler Mehndi took it to a very high level. My ultimate target is to win a Grammy. I don't want to primarily be a Bollywood playback singer.
In a case like Iraq the UN has again shown what important role it plays as the guarantor for protecting international peace and stability in the global political structure.
Like all social theories, internationalism must seek its basis in the economic and technical fields; here are to be found the most profound and the most decisive factors in the development of society.
I like John Kerry. I think he's intellectually curious and very thoughtful. I think he's deeply committed on issues like the environment. I think he's an internationalist, which I am.
Netflix isn't available internationally all the time, but the NBA is. It's nice to have something that feels like home.
It's like the Wild West, the Internet. There are no rules.
I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories.
Rather than being an interpreter, the scientist who embraces a new paradigm is like the man wearing inverting lenses.
And I like to interpret music. So I think it's all interpretive.
I have tender feelings for Nixon because everybody has warm feelings about their childhood. Actually, I didn't like the Watergate trials 'cause they interrupted 'The Munsters.'
I like to read the paper online. And I love email. And I love nothing better than to be interrupted.
Boredom is a choice. Like tardiness. Or interrupting.
My central quest was to have a piece played on the saxophone sound like more than one instrument, exploiting different registers and wide interval leaps.
Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.
The acting thing is so beyond my control. Acting isn't mine. You're like a tiny piece in this big, corporate mechanism that needs chemistry and divine intervention.
I would like go to Palestine and interview people there about what their lives are like; same thing in Iran.
