It's the height of the Cold War, but I grew up in apolitical family and politics wasn't on the agenda.

The world spends two trillion dollars a year on military, and of that two trillion the United States spends one trillion. We have a bigger military than the rest of the world put together. We have 150 foreign military bases.

We all want to believe this American pastoral, but there's more to it. We have to be willing to exile ourselves from the fantasies and the mythology that we create around ourselves, or we're doomed to kind of innocently blunder into every country in the world and murder people.

There were no political ideas. It was an apolitical time. It was the '50s and in the privilege of the suburbs.

Two thousand people a day were being murdered in Vietnam in a terrorist war, an official terrorist war.

I've said for thirty years that capitalism is an exhausted system. But now you can see the handwriting everywhere. And one especially horrifying part is the fiscal crisis.

Your kids require you most of all to love them for who they are, not to spend your whole time trying to correct them.