Raising kids is part joy and part guerrilla warfare.

My first job was with an auto plant, Kansas City - they treated you like slaves. From there I went back to Chicago, worked in steel mills, drove a cab, stuff like that.

I am not a method actor, though I studied for a year with Lee Strasburg.

I was a newspaper editor in high school, and I truly thought of journalism as a career. I loved it.

Where the work goes, I go. Wherever adulation occurs, that's where you'll find me.

The free access to information is not a privilege, but a necessity for any free society. One of my favorite things to do as a young man was wander through the stacks of my hometown library. I'd just browse until I found something interesting. Libraries have definitely changed my life.

All capitalists should be like Warren Buffett, and he says he should be taxed more.