We have always been searching for home. It's in our art... our religion... everything.

Good art and a good life answers questions. Great art and a great life asks questions.

Your life is a work of art that you will work on the rest of your life.

Artists are the emotional historians of the world.

As an immigrant, there's a little part of you that always says, "Well, I'm not a hundred percent American." America is some other little boy or some other place I haven't been to yet.

What was transformative was being at the inauguration, reading my poem, and realizing that the quest for home and identity had always been part of my work, but that I'd been home all along.

When girls come up and say, "You're my role model," it's really flattering, but it's also really scary because I'm not perfect and I'm going to make mistakes.

Big business has no party and never shall have.

I didn't always have friends so I am careful to take care of them.

Science proceeds by successive answers to questions more and more subtle, coming nearer and nearer to the very essence of phenomena.

But what I want most of all is a normal life.

A.J. [Muste] was a - as he likes to say, a radical pacifist.

My Get Up and Go Has Not Got Up and Went!

This universe is the wreckage of the infinite on the shores of the finite.

Experience has taught me that you feel better on a flight if you avoid chicken fat in plastic sauce.

Debating is not an honest intellectual exercise. It's like a trial in which the goal is not to get to the truth but to win.