America is this incredible mosaic of immigrants, so people really want to be anchored in some kind of culture as well as the one they are living in.

And yet, people still turn to Jesus. You will notice though that the kind of people who turn to Jesus tend to be the sort of people who haven't done that well with everybody else.

I do not walk around imaging myself to be intimidating or smart.

I wouldn't be in a huge hurry to go back to Kansas. It was just bizarre. There's a lot of very, very heavy set people who believe in whatever they were told, because they didn't seem to get out very much or be interested in leaving where they were. They just didn't seem that curious, and I find that a little hard to deal with.

I'm Irish, yeah, but I don't need to get up on a soapbox about it.

I'm very drawn to Eastern Europe, so I like a Hungarian writer who wrote in French called Emil Cioran; he was always good for giving me such a stir.

You can't please everyone, nor should you seek to, because then you won't please anyone, least of all yourself.