Guilty as hell. Free as a bird. America is a great country.

I breathed the air of deliverance through books, and through books I leapt over the walls of confinement.

My father lived with me the last five years of his life and passed away of Alzheimer's, and at that point he was saying to anyone who would listen, "We all hated the war in Vietnam." Well, it was easy to hate the war in Vietnam 40 years on.

Art and activism can be symbiotic. They don't have to be, of course; they can also be contradictory.

One of the great crimes of the Bloomberg/Klein administration [in New York City] is that they've removed themselves from communities, as if communities have nothing to say about what their needs and aspirations are for themselves and for their children.

I mean the prime case that you can look at is Martin Luther King, who was only an activist for 13 years. But every year, he became deeper, more concerned, connecting more issues.

Beginning to dismantle the Pentagon would save $1 trillion a year - a small government proposal if ever there was one.