The subset of our population that has not benefited from the advancement of medication is black and brown people.

I don't have any hobbies! I don't golf, I can't imagine what I would do if I retired other than get fat.

Dealing with Hollywood and commercial entertainment, you always have to worry that the political message is going to be skewed or obscured.

Hello! The world is a mess!

I go back to the parallels with 1963, 1964 when white America really became aware of the brutality of segregation, the cruelty of the apartheid system which existed in the south. Then white people began to get on the freedom buses and travel to the south and be part of the voter registration drives and they... some of them were beaten and some of them were murdered but they stood with the African-American community and the civil rights movement. It's time for straight people to do that today and it is time for gay people to insist that they do that today.

A whole lot of the way identity politics has gone seems to me to deny empathy.

This is a terrible time to be young, I think. It's really hard.