I come from a very la-ti-da East Coast intellectual family - or so they think.

I had to marry a Greek; I had to stir up the ethnic pot. Otherwise, my children would have been anemic and sickly. Now theyve got some good Mediterranean blood in them.

I grew up in that world of power and politics in Washington, but when you grow up around it, you are completely unfazed by it.

I came to trust in Jesus as my Savior after a two-year personal study of the Bible that convinced me that Scripture is free of contradiction and error - doctrinally, historically, and scientifically.

The cartoon is a metaphor really for the fact that it's almost impossible in our celebrity obsessed culture to move around genres and sort of change you ideas, change your face, you know?

Poetry is the art of understanding what it is to be alive.

I have kind of an existential crisis. I'm in my late 20s, I get excited by contemporary young culture, but at the same time, I don't want to be the 40-year-old DJ in the club.

There is also a philosophy of less-is-more, and a little dignity that never hurt anybody. There are many qualities to admire about our father's generation.

I saw a great bumper sticker that read: 'Do something that scares you every day.' That really stuck with me. I try to live like that.

You can tell when something's not moving forward anymore. When the doubts you have about it don't go away.

Non-violence is not glamorous, and you don't see the effects right away.

Why shouldn't man be as angry about not having always been alive as about having to stop being alive?

The only secure knowledge is that I exist.