I'm not in show business because I don't have to go to the meetings, I'm just not a part of it, I don't belong to it. When you "belong" to something. You want to think about that word, "belong." People should think about that: it means they own you. If you belong to something it owns you, and I just don't care for that. I like spinning out here like one of those subatomic particles that they can't quite pin down.

If a parsley farmer is sued, can they garnish his wages?

I think there's a little more attention to human needs than to property rights. But I don't think much of political activism. It's so shortsighted. Most people are interested in their own personal comfort. I've said that about environmentalists. I think they care about bike paths and places to park their Volvos, not the planet as an abstraction.

Weather forecast for tonight: dark. Continued dark overnight, with widely scattered light by morning.

Leadership camp? Isn't that where Hitler went?

By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.

If all the world is a stage, where is the audience sitting?