My first job was with an auto plant, Kansas City - they treated you like slaves. From there I went back to Chicago, worked in steel mills, drove a cab, stuff like that.

Raising kids is part joy and part guerrilla warfare.

I like smart, funny, self-deprecating men.

The older I've gotten, the more the need to exert comedy no matter how tragic a character I may be portraying because they are essentials for presenting truth.

A lot of people don't want to feel anti-black by being opposed to Obama.

I have an engagement ring, which is my favorite accessory.

There are genuinely sufficient resources in the world to ensure that no one, nowhere, at no time, should go hungry.

As they used to say 'What if they gave a war and nobody came?' How worthwhile if they declared a day of peace and everybody came.

All capitalists should be like Warren Buffett, and he says he should be taxed more.

I also think that there is a strong streak of racism, and whenever we engage in foreign adventures. Our whole history in regime change has been of people of different color.

Some of my earliest political feelings were based on the anti-Japanese bubblegum cards I got. There were also Spanish Civil War bubblegum cards. Awful.

Life is all about selling. Being able to exchange knowledge and move people to co-operate.

The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive.

You don't need to condemn. Just observe, That is sin. That is insanity. That is unconsciousness. Above all, don't forget to observe your own mind. Seek out the root of the insanity there.

I did meet Mickey Mouse in California, and he seems to be writing the Labour party's economic policy at the moment.

Kierkegaard, Marx, and Nietzsche are for us like guideposts to a past which has lost its significance.

We can with confidence set a goal to make this Christmas brighter than the last and each year that follows brighter still.

A fair question could be posed in this fashion: If people are not obeying existing laws, what makes us think they would obey any new laws?

Almost all institutions own a lot more art than they can ever show, much of it revealing for its timeliness, genius, or sheer weirdness.

I really love how Israel operates, and I love the Jewish people.

If anything I think we connect to what our parents were listening to when they were our age. I'm listening to a lot of classical and electronic music, like Aphex Twin, non-vocal music.