It was a wonderful life. To have a stage play right in this room, with real people acting real parts.

In World War One, they called it shell shock. Second time around, they called it battle fatigue. After 'Nam, it was post-traumatic stress disorder.

I can't remember when I wasn't an animal rights activist.

Mom would kill me if I showed my navel.

I'd really rather just be the anonymous Mr. Nobody who I always was up until I first went onstage. I liked that.

Consumers of meat, eggs and dairy products might well ask what they are supporting. Do farmers care about anyone but themselves? Can't anyone see the cow for the cheese?

I started writing as soon as I started reading.

We are cooling. We are not warming. The warming you see out there, the supposed warming, and I use my finger quotation marks here, is part of the cooling process.

Your best friend is the one who tells you the most truth.

I used to feel so bad before I got to the clubhouse, I didn't know what to do. But when I put that ballsuit on, I don't know where I got the spark to save my life.

Just because someone's a member of an ethnic minority doesn't mean they're not a nasty small-minded little jerk [...]

I think if the writing comes too easily, it shows - it's usually hard to read.