In the current climate, we live in a pessimistic and non-idealistic world.

What does it take to get you to the point where you have to kill your brother? It's biblical, it's huge. It's so personal.

What I find interesting is that the people that follow your Twitters are called 'followers.' Talk about false idolatry, right?

My mother missed having dinner with Lyndon Johnson because she couldn't find the right hat to wear. While my father went off to the white house to break bread with the President, my mother, who's not a things and stuff person, stayed at the hotel and tried on 10 different hats and missed dinner.

You look at 1968 and it was truly the year that shook the world. The world was really completely upside down.

Young people need to re-engage with politics. The life of democracy depends on it. We've left it to the stuff shirts, and obviously they haven't been minding the store.

I probably grow half my food. It's a good way to keep perspective.