Whatever time I promote outside of the classroom toward activism is my own business. I did oppose the war in Iraq. I would do it again.

He claimed that I promoted a number of my interests in the classroom. But none of what he talked about in the book took place on campus.

We don't know if we're going to be performing on a stage or a classroom.

War...is ugly and brutalizing, and the nobility is in doing it without becoming ugly and brutalizing.

To criticize the Middle East would not have made any sense because the speech was about being an academic in the United States, not the Middle East.

We love what we do. The entertainment business is about creating relationships. We're building it one act at a time, one referral at a time. It is based on integrity, good will and customer service.