The Bush administration is a paragon of wisdom.

I would kind of, you know, go stand next to some unlucky guy and say eventually, Hi, I'm George. You know, I'm with The New Yorker. I'm a liberal. I'm somewhat left of Gandhi. Do you want to talk? And, you know, they always did.

It's so ironic that you often hear these right-wing people talking about the Constitution.

I think kindness is a sort of gateway virtue - having that simple aspiration can get you into deep water very quickly - in a good way.

As a kid, I had a real fascination with perverse, off-color, and kind of risky things, and I also had a very sanctimonious Catholic, purist side.

I'm such a baby if I even get a flu.

In fact unrestrained capitalism is quite cruel and the cost is on the individual human, on his or her grace.