Jimmy Carter

Whatever starts in California unfortunately has an inclination to spread.

Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.

We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.

I always dreamed of writing in an orchestral context. But when you finish a piece, you want to hear it. So we played everything with Phish.

Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel, so we had my sister's wedding there. It was beautiful.

Although I write to entertain, and try to keep my work free of didacticism, I do have a rather passionate belief in our need to be connected to - and to learn from - history.