I like smart movies about smart people, and enjoy it when most of the facts are on the table and we can contemplate them together.
Musically, I just like when people are knowledgeable about music and they can talk to you about it.
The fun thing about journalism is if you go do a story about something, you can now ask three intelligent questions about it. Or say three intelligent things. And that gets people talking.
We still need a voice that thinks before it speaks.
It's refreshing, if you ask me, to have lengthy conversations with clear, brilliant minds about books, art, and what ought to happen next and how. I love it.
Crime shapes how we think about the world; it shapes social decisions that we make; it shapes our base of knowledge. But we don't talk about it intelligently.
What I hear every day on talk radio is America's lack of education - and I don't mean lack of college degrees. I mean lack of the basic art of democracy, the ability to seek the great truths that can come only by synthesizing the small truths possessed by each of us.
My idea of an educated person is one who can converse on one subject for more than two minutes.
