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.

As they used to say 'What if they gave a war and nobody came?' How worthwhile if they declared a day of peace and everybody came.

It's like an athlete. He has a string of hot years, and then he fades into nothingness. The actor doesn't necessarily fade into nothingness. After his hot years, he fades into a different category.

I also think that there is a strong streak of racism, and whenever we engage in foreign adventures. Our whole history in regime change has been of people of different color.

I got some news for you. One, there is no Jesus. Two, there is no God. Three, mind your own business and everything works out.

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

Raising kids is part joy and part guerrilla warfare.