Since I can barely write two books a year the best solution seems to be co-author projects. My goal isn't to get another writer to clone me... it's more to produce a book that shares my vision of positive fun entertainment.

There's been a slow death in a way. On the positive side there are films getting into the Academy Awards that wouldn't have but on the negative side financiers are now dominant and making all the decisions. I can't count the ways a director's vision is compromised.

STAR TREK is a show that had a vision about a future that was positive.

Women are called upon to defend every bit of progress we have made against particularly virulent attack. But we must also hold out a vision put forth a positive agenda of what women need and want and then move forward toward that dream.

More Asians need to be on television as a positive role model.

In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision.

Look at the declining television coverage. Look at the declining voting rate. Economics and economic news is what moves the country now not politics.

Good politics starts with empathy proceeds to analysis then sets out values and establishes the vision before getting to the nitty-gritty of policy solutions.

The fallback position in politics is if you don't know what you want to be about and if you don't know what your vision is go at somebody else.

It's not about division. It's not about politics. My concern is how do we come together?

I understand the process of politics and the game of television.

I guess probably in my time in politics it continued to be affirmed to me that the African-American community despite being subscription television's most valuable customers they are very underserved by cable and satellite television programming options.

These days politics religion media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken over.

I tend to avoid televisions politics and places with velvet ropes.

The country already has a leader who divides us with the bitter politics of envy. We have to offer an alternative vision.

Television is democracy at its ugliest.

The poetry and transgression that was so much of surrealism's anarchic force has been recruited into mainstream culture. It has been made commonplace by television and magazine merchandising by computer games and Internet visuals by film and MTV by the fashion shoot.

A lyric it is true is the expression of personal emotion but then so is all poetry and to suppose that there are several kinds of poetry differing from each other in essence is to be deceived by wholly artificial divisions which have no real being.

Bleak House is just the most astounding piece of work. There's huge visionary poetry in it.

America was based on a poetic vision. What will happen when it loses its poetry?

I knew what book we had to write it was clear in my head it was journals and poetry. So I passed on their offer. I told my agent this is our vision and no one's done it this way.

Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other it is something which goes much further than that to provide a glimpse of our vision of the world.

One of the gaps in our international development efforts is the provision of global public goods - that is goods or conditions we need that no individual or country can secure on their own such as halting global warming financial stability and peace and security.

For me to propose a division of Jerusalem was really terrible. I did it because I reached a conclusion that without which there will not be peace.