the truth is often a mixed message

Owning a gun in America is one way for conservative white males to demonstrate their anger at crime, liberalism, feminism, and modernity.

I really enjoy doing theater, but doing theater in Seattle is like dropping a brick in a bottomless well. It's gratifying, but it's almost like doing radio. It's ephemeral.

How can you tell somebody who is pursuing happiness that they're somehow not American when that was the very first promise that America made?

I'm not good looking. I'm very strange - a very bony face on an enormous skull, and I don't like to be naked because I don't like how I look naked. And - no, no. I own a lot of my house, because I'm Irish and from people who never owned anything. So I could have a lot more trappings of wealth if every time I had 20 extra dollars I didn't pay off more of the mortgage.

I wouldn't say that holidays are manufactured by corporations, but they're certainly exploited and mined by them.

A lot of people are living their lives online in much more public ways with Facebook and Twitter.