I suffer from a genetic flaw, which is that my mother was a hopeless Pollyanna.

I have an addiction to caffeine.

I'm wary of government. Part of [the Tea Party] impulse is to dislike and be worried about the rich. I'm that way too. So I don't find them to be as atrocious as most people do, as your liberals do. I'm not a liberal.

I do think [Barack Obama's] strategy for re-election is so misguided. He's counting on the Republicans to self-destruct, and they might, you know, but they might not. So he might be a one-term president.

Can we imagine a different world? I can. That's a world where work is rational, it's in the common good, and we're actually producing real things rather than spinning our wheels in dreams of consumer heaven.

I went underground. So I didn't see [my father] for 11 years. So that was pretty traumatic time for my parents for sure.

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