I'm anti-establishment. So all the labels, the reason that I keep joking and rejecting this idea that I'm liberal, well partly that's because I think of myself as a radical, and by that I mean, not even in the terms of Left-Right that you might imagine - but someone who wants to go to the root of problems.

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

I'm not disappointed in [Barack] Obama. He said who he is; he's doing what he said he would do.

In a wild and diverse democracy each of us should be trying to talk to lots and lots and lots of people outside of our own kind of comfort zone and community, and that injunction goes even further for political leaders. They should talk to everyone, they should listen to everyone, and at the end of the day they should have a mind of their own.

Where's the activism? Nobody knows. And anyone who thinks they know, like Todd Gitlin, has their head up their ass. Nobody knows. The day before every revolution that's ever happened, that revolution was impossible. The day before Rosa Parks, that was impossible. The day after, it was inevitable.

The nice thing about being detained in Canada is it's like being in a Days Inn; it's very clean and very nice.

Certainly my parents were Dr. [Benjamin] Spock-driven parents. So they were tolerant.